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There are some downstream / knock on effects going on which can be explained...but I can't help but wonder if today's story is bigger than just AWS. AWS saying it was an outage of a "few hours" for DynamoDB and DNS...and that doesn't line up all that great with what people are reporting in the wild . I'm not trying to start a conspiracy theory, just wondering what the post mortems will tell us, if anything. Obviously the suits want to keep embarrassing fuckups downplayed as much as possible.
As someone with a little insider baseball knowledge, it was just a few hours down of DynamoDB and DNS. However, that caused EC2 to go down for ~1 day, which causes pretty much 1/3 of the internet to go down. Once EC2 sorts themselves out, then teams/companies (almost all amazon services use EC2 in the back end) that use EC2 have to get their ducks back in a row, and that can take any span of time, depending on how well their code was written to handle failures + how many people they are willing to pay oncall/overtime.
Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff.
Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something?
Same with us. Had to reboot/restart a number of things, and resynch clocks.
They want to keep the news of the rally over the weekend as quiet as possible.
and the epstein files. i heard it dint affect international that much, so its rather covenient.
Dave explains the "long tail" of recovery:
https://youtu.be/KFvhpt8FN18