[yuvadam]

During the last us-east-1 apocalypse 14 years ago, I started awsdowntime.com - don't make me regsiter it again and revive the page.

[Sparkyte]

I remember the one where some contractor accidentally cut the trunk between AZes.

[oasisbob]

In us-east-1? That doesn't sound that impactful, have always heard that us-east-1's network is a ring.

Back before AWS provided transparency into AZ assignments, it was pretty common to use latency measurements to try and infer relative locality and mappings of AZs available to an account.

[Sparkyte]

It was a long time ago. It was very impactful at the time. You could still reach the other AZes but that one. I think this was US-East1c.