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  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Each site has a network load balancer, I mean if it was an AWS wide one, it probably wouldn't be a single region that goes down. And again, this is just my guess. Having a hardware load balancer is how the place I worked at managed traffic between several server rooms, and it was usually the main culprit for downtime. It's a very handy device so your network doesn't get overwhelmed by traffic spikes, but afaik really hard to make redundant.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Oh I see what you mean. Yeah I guess it would make sense that us-east-1 goes down often since it's the most trafficked and it does have to have physical hardware that can fail.