> Finally, AWS isn't a silver bullet. For anyone in us-east-1, you know [0].

I probably should have commented on the original article here, but I pulled all of my company's production infra out of that AZ back in 2019 because AWS dragged its feet for too long deploying 5th gen hardware there.

I assumed the racks were full or something. I still don't know if they ever did get newer hardware in that AZ—I just avoid it like the plague.

I had a light chuckle this week when I discovered the work I did out of sheer frustration saved us from a partial outage seven years later.