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Amazon Web Services is down (economic question)
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:17 pm
So, the company I work for is 100% reliant on AWS for any part of the business to work. It's been down for over an hour, and this affects us company wide. Absolutely no location is able to function right now.
What kind of loss of economic activity happens when such an integral part of the tech and web retail sector goes down? Millions a minute? Tens of millions?
I have nothing to do so speculation is my only task right now.
What kind of loss of economic activity happens when such an integral part of the tech and web retail sector goes down? Millions a minute? Tens of millions?
I have nothing to do so speculation is my only task right now.
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Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:18 pm to HempHead
This is why you deploy your stuff in multiple regions.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:20 pm to HempHead
There’s insurance for this very situation. To answer your question, it’s impossible to know the amount of loss without knowing what kind of businesses are affected.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:21 pm to TDsngumbo
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There’s insurance for this very situation.
We're on contract to provide a service for municipalities, so fortunately we aren't suffering potential sales losses - just a shutdown of our contracted service. Not entirely sure how that works.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:21 pm to HempHead
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I have nothing to do so speculation is my only task right now.
Might I suggest TulaneLSU’s Sam’s vs. Walmart shopping guide? It will save you cents.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:21 pm to HempHead
You should probably be working on making the system more redundant. Just a single region is down. Why aren't your company's systems failsafed over to other regions?
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:21 pm to HempHead
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100% reliant on AWS
Dumb move
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:22 pm to TDsngumbo
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it’s impossible to know the amount of loss without knowing what kind of businesses are affected.
I'm pretty sure that AWS is the biggest system of its kind in the US. I'd love to see the info on how much of web traffic (and other functions) are reliant on one company.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:23 pm to tom
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Why aren't your company's systems failsafed over to other regions?
frick if I know. I don't work on the tech - just operations side.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:23 pm to TDsngumbo
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This post was edited on 8/11/23 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:29 pm to tom
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You should probably be working on making the system more redundant. Just a single region is down. Why aren't your company's systems failsafed over to other regions?
I bet I can take a stab at that. The bean counters were willing to pay to move to the cloud because the salesmen told them how safe it was and how much money it would save. But regional redundancy was just a bit too expensive to swallow (and it's cloud so it never goes down).
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:29 pm to HempHead
been in a call for the past hour and a half on this, we are 100% on us-east for our north american sites. luckily we have some caches in place that are partially saving our arse right now.
ETA: looks like its back
ETA: looks like its back
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:40 pm to HempHead
Lol I was watching AMD conference on AI at noon and AWS was on bragging about AMD servers and how much more ffecient they’ve made them
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:44 pm to HempHead
The fact that AWS is reportedly down for many thousands of its customers, yet Amazon.com is functioning normally right now, tells you all you need to know.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 3:44 pm to HempHead
quote:Oof
So, the company I work for is 100% reliant on AWS
Posted on 6/13/23 at 4:07 pm to HempHead
I really am enjoying an email-free afternoon, or my employees pestering me on Teams.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 4:11 pm to HempHead
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100% reliant on AWS for any part of the business to work
Not sure even Amazon is that reliant on AWS
Posted on 6/13/23 at 4:24 pm to HempHead
Public sector here.
Our civil staff uses pitney bowes for all their certified mail. Completely down due to aws.
Our civil staff uses pitney bowes for all their certified mail. Completely down due to aws.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 4:25 pm to yaboidarrell
Not everyone can afford multiple MZRs or the latency involved.
I was waiting for haircut when a CTO called his ISP to complain about having to send 200+ employees that did national support for some outfit home because they didn't have connectivity the entire day.
The impact is probably in the tens of millions depending on the MZR for *each* cloud provider. On the other hand, the customer is usually going to fulfill the order/service after your site comes up anyway.
I was waiting for haircut when a CTO called his ISP to complain about having to send 200+ employees that did national support for some outfit home because they didn't have connectivity the entire day.
The impact is probably in the tens of millions depending on the MZR for *each* cloud provider. On the other hand, the customer is usually going to fulfill the order/service after your site comes up anyway.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 4:28 pm to A Smoke Break
people dont realize the amount of codependency involved in a cloud based architecture. outages are going to happen. It sucks but thats life.
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