On: Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

[lozaning]

And Amazon. I recall that during their most recent s3 outage Amazon's status page was green across the board, because somehow all the assets that were supposed to be displayed when things went wrong were themselves hosted on the thing that was down.

[mrep → lozaning]

Yes, changing the status page required updating a S3 bucket that was located in us-east-1 which is where it went down so they couldn't change it.

[ti_ranger → mrep]

And now, S3 has cross-region replication ...

And so does DynamoDB, and Aurora ...