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Outage or reliability
Outages, and the fog that comes with them.
The failure is bad. The information is worse. The status page stays green while your pager does not, the update says "elevated error rates" for the third hour running, and us-east-1 takes services with it that you were told were regional. Multi-AZ is not multi-region, the control plane is a dependency nobody drew on the diagram, and the post-incident report arrives after everyone has stopped caring.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on AWS Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Account suspension2026-08-04
They suspended my account, took my email server down with it, then told me to read the email they sent me
AWS suspended the account running my mail server. The suspension notice was delivered by email. To the mailbox they had just switched off. Recovery depended on DNS I still controlled.
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