column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Nah AWS has been having massive outages around the DNS for us-east-1 for the past decade. This is nothing new. Recovery times around this one were particularly brutal because it was Diwali yesterday and all their Indian support engineers were out enjoying the holiday.