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From the great Corey Quinn

Ah yes, the great AWS us-east-1 outage.

Half the internet’s on fire, engineers haven’t slept in 18 hours, and every self-styled “resilience thought leader” is already posting:

“This is why you need multi-cloud, powered by our patented observability synergy platform™.”

Shut up, Greg.

Your SaaS product doesn’t fix DNS, you're simply adding another dashboard to watch the world burn in higher definition.

If your first reaction to a widespread outage is “time to drive engagement,” you're working in tragedy tourism. Bet your kids are super proud.

Meanwhile, the real heroes are the SREs duct-taping Route 53 with pure caffeine and spite.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_aws-useast1-cloudcomp...



This wins all the internets today. Probably not a day where internets are particularly valuable, but it wins them nonetheless.


He once said about an open source project that I was the third highest contributor on at AWS “This may be the worst AWS naming of 2021.” It was one of the proudest moments in my career.

Yes I know it’s sad…




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