[Outages-discussion] Re: [Outages] AWS US-EAST-1

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM Shaun Potts via Outages-discussion < outages-discussion@outages.org> wrote:

I always enjoy the armchair "haha that's why you don't use <x>" engineers.

I always enjoy it when the next generation of engineers with fresh and exciting new ideas are forced to re-learn what "single point of failure" means. This is usually followed a few years later by realizing that SPOF includes companies (like AWS today), the various definitions of layer 8 on the OSI stack, and that one time I fired up 'cssh' with the wrong target and happily restarted a service for all customers instead of a much smaller subset. -A