[exikyut]

I wonder what happened to the building when us-east-1 went down.

[Someone]

As the parent said: “Everyone was locked out in a building am staying at (40 something stories) for several hours.”

[Ekaros]

Now 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]

Facebook already got bit by this when their BGP setup pooped its pants on Oct 4, 2021

[iamtedd]

They could ask facebook for advice.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52448/were-face...

[csomar]

This 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.

[blitzar]

I wonder what happened to the building when the internet went down. How do you get into the room to reboot the router?

[stephen_g]

There’s usually a back door with a physical key. The problem can be getting ahold of one of the people with that key though!

[mystifyingpoi]

There is probably a break-glass procedure for such cases, like, break the literal window.