Outage occurs halfway through my presentation to the whole team, shortly after I’d been discussing how great it would be as a robust, highly available storage solution for our knowledge base!
Can’t help but laugh at the timing.
I thought it was an amazing example of how expensive it is to be in the cloud. I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud...
Think they still run off of a few servers or did they ever migrate to the cloud?
The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or otherwise. They might've avoided this but they might've been hit by yesterday's AWS outage. [0]
I don't think they'd gain much from migrating, and to the best of my knowledge they haven't.
edit: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-wha... sure sounds like it's still a handful of physical boxes :)
Cloud is not all wine and roses but I still love it.
1. The page I'm looking for
2. A Content-Type: text/html, body: "The service is unavailable." page
3. A more elaborate "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance" page
1 second edit: And back to "The service is unavailable" error page.
And a moment later: Got it to load, then refreshed and back to error. Just seems really flaky.