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		shawabawa3 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 the highest availability service i think is S3 at 4 nines you might be thinking of durability for s3 which is 11 nines, and i've never heard of anyone losing an object yet

alex_suzuki 5 months ago [–]

no, it's probably Route 53, touted as having "100% availability" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Route_53)

shawabawa3 5 months ago | [–]

hah, that's funny as the outage seems to be caused by DNS issues

kondro 5 months ago | | [–]

Route53 was still resolving DNS entries just fine. But it looked like someone/something removed the entries for DynamoDB.

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