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nextworddev
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“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down
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_sword
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Happened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
rezonant
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Amazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.
PeterZaitsev
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Yep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability.
What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown
didip
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Friends don’t let friends run on us-east-1. Consolidate on us-west-1 or us-west-2 instead.
bobnamob
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us-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>
booi
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us-west-1 seems small. They routinely run out of the instance size we request and the spot market seems.. unruly
hoofhearted
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Virginia is for lovers. Ohio is for uptime.
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