[HN Gopher] AWS EC2 Having Issues
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       AWS EC2 Having Issues
        
       Author : gshakir
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-04-13 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (status.aws.amazon.com)
        
       | random5634 wrote:
       | I run mostly us-west-2 - and when talking about AWS I've always
       | felt reliability was pretty good. us-east-1 really is the one
       | that seems to get hammered the hardest on the error counts.
        
       | igetspam wrote:
       | Some day people will learn that us-east-1 is the least reliable
       | region.
        
         | cryptoz wrote:
         | Nobody uses us-east-1 anymore. It's too crowded.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | bashinator wrote:
       | Never run prod in us-east-1.
        
         | meepmorp wrote:
         | It's the one with the chaos monkey built in.
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | luhn wrote:
           | More like Chaos Gorilla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_
           | engineering#Chaos_Gorill...
        
         | johncena33 wrote:
         | I see this a lot. Is there any reason why this particular
         | region will have so many issues?
        
           | notatoad wrote:
           | A big reason is it's the largest region. More servers = more
           | likely to have problems
        
           | TheDong wrote:
           | EC2 existed in us-east-1 only for 2 years before it was
           | launched in a second region.
           | 
           | Those 2 years were already enough to pick up some legacy
           | cruft and special case. us-east-1 is also the first region
           | for various other old services, like s3 and route53.
           | 
           | I think it's also the largest region across many axis, which
           | naturally means it will hit various scaling issues before
           | other regions.
        
           | ufoolme wrote:
           | Not sure if it is related but it is usually one of the first
           | to get or be trialing new features. I believe a few global
           | services are run out of us-east-1 as well.
        
         | acdha wrote:
         | That joke is getting pretty tired by now and restating it seems
         | unlikely to be helpful for anyone who's affected by the rate-
         | limited API calls in question.
        
           | igetspam wrote:
           | It's not a joke. The us-east-1 region is one of if not the
           | oldest. Some of the infrastructure is aging because it's hard
           | to phase out. Amazon has learned a lot since then and the
           | newer regions have reaped all the benefits, where Virginia
           | hasn't. There are components that exist in that region and
           | don't exist in others but as a rule, I use those as remote
           | resources and keep all my critical infra in Ohio, if I need
           | to be near east.
        
       | berniemadoff69 wrote:
       | interesting they use blue as the color that indicate an "issue".
       | at a glance, looks like nothing to see here. i have a feeling
       | that if the entire AWS infrastructure were to go offline somehow
       | they would refer to that as 'increase error rates'
        
         | ashtonkem wrote:
         | 100% is _technically_ an increase, if you're rules lawyering.
        
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