Moreover, multiple reports at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
And on twitter and social media.
Wondering how much Amazon outages can actually increase revenues for smaller companies.
Crashing, Saving files, and general instability of the platform. I have wondered if Azure is doing some load-balancing on AWS.
seeing this exact message on reddit when trying to post
Seems like I made the right choice!
In all seriousness, I don't think I'd rely on a single provider for anything these days, unless I really don't care when it goes down. That's pretty easy and cheap to do with most things, but I'm not quite sure how to approach a backup database in an economical way.
In cases where data integrity is important, this could also result in splits where data gets left behind. It is often better to fail than to have situations where the data does not match.