Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Article summary

AWS appears to be experiencing an outage, with multiple users reporting issues in various regions, including us-west-1 and us-west-2. The AWS status page initially showed no issues, but later reported internet connectivity problems in the affected regions. Some users are experiencing errors and outages with services such as Twitch and Auth0, which are hosted on AWS. The cause of the outage is currently being investigated.

Main themes

• AWS Outage
• Cloud Reliability
• Multi-Cloud Strategies
• Status Page Effectiveness
• Regional Redundancy
• Service Downtime

What commenters say

• The frequency of AWS outages may not significantly impact its market share in cloud products.
• Multi-cloud strategies may not be an effective solution to mitigate outages, as they can introduce additional points of failure.
• Some organizations may consider building multi-regional services to reduce dependence on a single region.
• The effectiveness of AWS's status page in reporting outages is being questioned, with some users preferring alternative sources such as Downdetector.
• The outage is affecting various services, including Twitch, Auth0, and npmjs.com.
• Some users are skeptical about the benefits of using multiple cloud providers to avoid outages.
• The root cause of the outage has been identified, and AWS is working towards full recovery.