Didn't the latest outage affect people not on us-east-1 because internal aws services depend on us-east-1?
replyThe impacts are usually partial. For example, scaling is impacted but everything already deployed contributes to work up to capacity. Or, you can't change configuration but the previous configuration works as configured. Often surprisingly not so impactful even if there can be limited work stoppage.
replyThe problem with the us-east-1 outage is that a lot of big companies are there, so even if you try your best not to depend on us-east-1, your third party providers are most likely there. In my previous company, we were completely down during us-east-1 outage because of other dependencies that are beyond our control.
replyEntirely fair. I have thus far avoided that problem. Not always engineering's choice.
replyWork for a major bank who isn't solely in US East 1.
replyNo it didn't impact us.