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I wonder what happened to the building when us-east-1 went down.
by exikyut 8mo ago
I wonder what happened to the building when us-east-1 went down.
- csomar 8mo agoThis is in SEA. They probably operate from ap-southeast-1 or 2. But yeah, if the internet goes down, the provider service goes down or AWS goes down they are cooked.
- Ekaros 8mo agoNow I am waiting for time when they move us-east-1 physical security to run in us-east-1... Thus locking themselves out when needing some physical intervention on servers to get backup.
- proctorg76 8mo agoFacebook already got bit by this when their BGP setup pooped its pants on Oct 4, 2021
- iamtedd 8mo agoThey could ask facebook for advice. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52448/were-facebook-employees-unable-to-enter-their-own-building-to-fix-router-problem https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52448/were-face...
- blitzar 8mo agoI wonder what happened to the building when the internet went down. How do you get into the room to reboot the router?
- mystifyingpoi 8mo agoThere is probably a break-glass procedure for such cases, like, break the literal window.
- stephen_g 8mo agoThere’s usually a back door with a physical key. The problem can be getting ahold of one of the people with that key though!
- Someone 8mo agoAs the parent said: “Everyone was locked out in a building am staying at (40 something stories) for several hours.”