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AWS is down too, this is likely the cause since Heroku runs on it. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-
by reubano 5y ago
AWS is down too, this is likely the cause since Heroku runs on it. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
- mattwad 5y agoAWS must be only partially down, all of it is running fine for me in us-east-1. Elastic beanstalk ftw! :)
- throwthere 5y agoIf us-east-1 is up I have a heard time believing ANYTHING aws is down
- nickphx 5y agoNo, AWS is not down.
- jermaustin1 5y agoAWS status page is up, but going VERY slow, and says no issues.
- XzAeRosho 5y agoAs usual whenever there's an AWS outage
- reubano 5y agoI still don't get why they use images <td class="bb pad04 top center" style="width: 32px"> <img src="/images/status0.gif"> </td> Instead of unicode:https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U%2b2705 https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U%2b2705
- jermaustin1 5y agoif the image tag is drawn dynamically then it is actually probably less bandwidth than the unicode character since the image can be cached at multiple locations including the browser.
- gjs278 5y ago
- cure 5y ago.... no way. Cache freshness checks involve a lot of headers, which take up way more bandwidth than one unicode character.
- jermaustin1 5y agoif you care about cache freshness - you could set the cache header to 10 years and it never be an issue again.
- jrochkind1 5y agoLess bandwidth than the 1-4 bytes of a codepoint in UTF-8? How do you figure?
- jermaustin1 5y agoBecause if it is cached, then it is 0 bytes transferred. First request could be probably a few hundred bytes, but never needed again. And once it is at a CDN, there is never another request to the server.
- cure 5y agoIt's because they can host the images in S3 buckets, so that their status page goes down when S3 is down. /s But, this really happened in 2017.
- jmartens 5y agoWhat is the proof that AWS is down? Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.
- reubano 5y agoWhat makes Downdetector unreliable? It's showing a huge spike right now.
- zorpner 5y agoDowndetector relies on user reports, so e.g. if a user's ISP is down and they can't get to Facebook, they might report Facebook being down (or vice versa). DD spikes are typically indicative of _something_, but it's not always the actual down service.
- reubano 5y agoGotcha. Although for a spike this large (over 1000) for a tech service (AWS vs Facebook) I'd give some credence to it. It could be that everyone who reported AWS as down is running on Heroku. Definitely possible. For comparison Azure [0] and Google Cloud [1] have spikes under 30. [0] https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ [1] https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
- djbusby 5y agoTheir (metrist) claim is that DD is human reported and therefore unreliable. Metrist monitors via bots
- jmartens 5y agoIt can be useful, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. A perfect example is the recent Facebook (Meta) outage. When that happened, Downdetector showed that ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile all had issues. They didn't, it was just Facebook and users mentioned or otherwise claimed that it was their mobile carrier.
- jrochkind1 5y agoAWS status page is all green.... Just kidding! I know the information content of the AWS status page is literally zero, it's always green!
- somenewaccount1 5y agoNah, it's just on a 12 hour delay between updates.
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