[stingraycharles]

That’s an entirely different type of problem, and avoidable by just using us-east-2 (I still don’t understand why people default to us-east-1 unless they require some highly specific services).

[aloha2436]

Is it that easily avoidable? A lot of AWS's control plane seems to have dependencies on us-east-1, or at least that's what it's looked like as a non-us-east-1 user during recent outages.

[happymellon]

I don't know how much it's improved, but a bunch of URLs they use unnecessarily have region specific details in them.

I remember a Workspaces outage about 5 or 6 years ago, and the problem for us was that the redirect link in the console had US East 1 in it.

The workspaces themselves weren't in US East 1 and nothing relied on US East 1.

Emailing users who needed it an alternative link with a different region in the URL for the login redirect fixed it for us.

[MattGaiser]

Sympathy. Railway is going to have numerous people blaming them for this outage. When us-east-1 fails, it is headline news, so you are not to blame.