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Captainant

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  1. We'll get the President right on that lmfao, right after he's done pardoning Maxwell.
  2. The full RCA got posted https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ TLDR - a DNS update with a race condition furked DDB, which it turns out acts as the service discovery mechanism for basically every service in us-east-1. This borked NLB healthchecks, EC2 provisioning (because of no network connectivity), and Lambda and Fargate execution environments (because of no EC2 to host on)
  3. Won't somebody think of South Austin's mom??
  4. You're not allowed to point out the national debt has risen by $2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) since January 2025, or that domestic agriculture and cattle is being bumble fucked by $40,000,000,000 of bailouts for foreign countries. Good thing we have DOGE on the case
  5. Hey man, he's a rich guy so by the law of the land he can do whatever he wants. Haven't you been paying attention? Something something job creation by destruction
  6. Reminds me of blocking COVID testing because if you don't know then it's not happening
  7. Heh, Elmo and SpaceX lost in the trespassing suit from the Cards Against Humanity folks https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/ That'll be a fun set to pick up
  8. A ton of folks using SDK's to communicate with cloud services neglect to parametrize their region settings, resulting in their software using endpoints in an east region for doing DR to a west region. There were a few instances of regional anchoring for "global" services in AWS but those cleared up/failed over fairly quickly compared to the overall recovery time for compute. From reading AWS's outage explanation, when DDB shit the bed, it knocked over a ton of interdependent AWS services that took a while to come back to life. EC2 was back up for a few hours before serverless and other managed services stopped being marked as degraded. It'll be a few more days before they release a full RCA analysis but I'd bet a dollar they're gonna have some Correction of Error documents to release as well
  9. You would not have been impacted yesterday if you were running on AWS - you have reasonable multi-site DR configured and sensitive to DNS update. That's the biggest thing a lot of businesses overlook, really just because it's easier/cheaper to design around a single site/region
  10. Gotta love waiting until an outage to actually test a DR strategy
  11. TBH you're still subject to the same risk profile of single-source outage, you just (theoretically) have more control on the state of your single site. If you build a true multi-region architecture that doesn't hard-code its endpoints to region specific infra, it's pretty straightforward to recover. The big advantage IaaS gives is that you can burst/scale with zero opportunity cost, whereas in your own DC you're paying for that hardware for its lifespan. But if your operational model is pretty steady state, then yeah cloud is just paying for someone else's margin. If you don't want to deal with physical infra management it's a great deal - but yeah my NAS can't be beat by cloud in terms of price per GB or cost of IO operations, even including cost of power
  12. The AWS outage (simplified) in Haiku form: It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS And this is a pretty good and easy to follow explainer, but a DNS failure caused dynamoDB to become unreachable in us-east-1, which made the shit hit the fan
  13. CO of US SOUTHCOMM resigned one year into a 3 year posting, seemingly over these strikes
  14. Sweatergawd more enterprises should take multiregion architecture more seriously. At least a pilot light backup would let you hit a 30 minute RTO to just fail over from use1
  15. Holy shit the CO of US SOUTHCOMM prosecuting the Carribean drug interdiction mission just resigned Pretty significant indicator that he resigned a year into a 3 year posting that's the pinnacle of a career. I didn't know that SecDef activated special forces assets to do the strikes after the Admiral refused on the basis of them not being legal combatants
  16. but seriously, that's the best way to watch games. I find a good stream on my phone/laptop/PC, and then cast it to my TV. EZPZ
  17. no, that's the commercial real estate market and RTO mandates
  18. surly never goes down, it's just borked sometimes
  19. [laughs in AWS] yeah even Amazon.com is down
  20. this is quite literally unconstitutional, so if you're cool with tearing that document up it's all a bit of a moot point. Congress controls taxation and spending. In the constitution, at least.
  21. If ACA was already gone (lulz) the fascists would have found another bone to chew on. Read a fucking history book, this is exactly what fascists do.
  22. You're not right, you're wong.
  23. https://www.wsj.com/business/ballmer-clippers-leonard-sanberg-aspiration-49924b19?mod=mhp This is pretty close to a smoking gun from WSJ, especially if Clippers execs were pushing this on Sanberg
  24. Ok, so not quite a Chamberlain. Mea Culpa.
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