Easiest day for engineers on-call everywhere except AWS staff. There’s nothing you can do except wait for AWS to come back online.
Pour one out for the customer service teams of affected businesses instead
Pour one out for the customer service teams of affected businesses instead
There are certainly organizations for which that cost is lower than the overall damage of services being down due to AWS fault, but tomorrow we will hear CTOs from smaller orgs as well.
This will hold until the next time AWS had a major outage, rinse and repeat.
When everything is some varying degree of broken at all times been responsible for a brief uptick in the background brokenness isn't the drama you think it is.
It would be different if the systems I worked on where true life and death (ATC/Emergency Services etc) but in reality the blast radius from my fucking up somewhere is monetary and even at the biggest company I worked for constrained (while 100+K per hour from an outage sounds horrific - in reality the vast majority of that was made up when the service was back online, people still needed to order the thing in the end).
I have three words for you: cascading systems failure