Seemingly the world is going to pot and nobody cares

I think we're just getting used to mass outages being a thing, so that when they happen nowadays it's not as big news as it used to be and we all just get on with things - which is good!

The PITA for me today is just the Lloyds group being offline, as I had some work stuff to do this morning and the clients use Lloyds.
 
I thought about posting this news ~2 hours ago, but I couldn't be bothered.

Might be unrelated, but my weather app and mobile game wouldn't load earlier.
 
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Nasher said:
And this is why outsourced cloud services are a bad idea.

One **** up and multiple businesses go offline. If you are only a small player in with this lot, get right to the back of the line for a fix.
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On the plus side though, we did get all those celeb nude leaks :P
Every cloud, and all that :D
 
RxR said:
Thread title evoked existential philosophy, delivered Amazon failure.
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UTmaniac said:
I thought about posting this news ~2 hours ago, but I couldn't be bothered.

Might be unrelated, but my weather app and mobile game wouldn't load earlier.
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I mean there is little an individual can do except maybe curse and twiddle your thumbs until the switch off, switch on happens.

A few hours cumulatively probably cost a few million in lost business maybe 10 or a hundred times that.

I was quite surprised that nobody did pick up on it with the present furore on digital ID and Imjur forced to withdraw its service to the UK. Maybe in the global digital domain this is small beer and a price to pay for living ones life online. Hey ho back to the candles.
:D
 
Nasher said:
And this is why outsourced cloud services are a bad idea.

One **** up and multiple businesses go offline. If you are only a small player in with this lot, get right to the back of the line for a fix.
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It was only one region that went off-line. If you had something important to run, you shouldn’t have been relying on one region.
 
Good. Set fire to their server farms for good measure. Take your pants off. Run around singing Barbie Girl. Write crap limericks on street signs. Let the world burn.
 
mid_gen said:
It was only one region that went off-line. If you had something important to run, you shouldn’t have been relying on one region.
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The worrying thing is that a lot of services seem to be running off this US-east-1 region that was affected. I wonder why.
 
People will one day realise that public cloud services are not always cheaper, and not always more reliable
 
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