AWS Glue/Athena/Redshift outage

[nnx]

Should edit title to add “in us-east-1”. Other regions are unimpacted.

[thinkingkong]

There are so many outages in us-east-1. I've heard the reason is because that's where they roll out maintenance first or something along those lines. Just look at this list of outages on Wikipedia [1] and scan for US-east-1, North Virginia, or "Northeast" (all the same places).

Just don't use US-EAST-1 as your region.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...

[wgjordan]

Summary:

> Between 9:21 AM and 2:36 PM PDT we experienced increased query failures and latency in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

> The issue with the Data Catalog APIs started with a software update in the US-EAST-1 Region that completed at 9:21 AM PDT. The software update was immediately rolled back[...]

[nknealk]

Thankfully the redshift outage was just on APIs, not existing machines. Our cluster was fine today, but external schema which rely on glue/athena did time out.

[nullwasamistake]

Cloud services go down more often than my old WordPress sites. Avoiding vendor lock in and doing multi-provider deployments should be par the course.

[kache_]

Failovers, man.