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AWS us-east-1 outage (status.aws.amazon.com)

1658 points by judge2020 · 1747 days ago · 957 comments on HN

Article summary

The article appears to be about an AWS us-east-1 outage, but the text is not available. Commenters report various AWS services being down or experiencing issues, including Lambda, STS, and SES. The outage seems to be affecting multiple services and regions, with some users experiencing errors and others reporting that their services are still up. The AWS status page does not reflect the outage, with all services showing as available.

Main themes

  • AWS outage
  • us-east-1 region
  • service disruptions
  • status page transparency
  • error reporting
  • regional impact

What commenters say

  • Some AWS services, such as Lambda and SES, are experiencing outages in the us-east-1 region.
  • The AWS Management Console is down, but some users report that the CLI is still working.
  • The outage is not limited to the us-east-1 region, with some users reporting issues in other regions, such as eu-west-1.
  • The AWS status page is not accurately reflecting the outage, with all services showing as available despite user reports of errors.
  • Some users believe that the status page should be more transparent and provide real-time updates on outages.
  • Others argue that providing real-time updates could give attackers valuable information and that a delay is necessary.
  • The lack of transparency on the status page is seen as a problem by some users, who feel that it is not providing accurate information.
  • Some users speculate that the reason for the lack of transparency is that AWS has a financial incentive to minimize the appearance of downtime.