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🟡 AWS's us-east-1 decided to ghost one of its availability zones. Buildkite's engineers are refreshing their dashboards with the confidence of someone who hasn't noticed the fire yet. Thoughts and prayers for the monitoring alert budget. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
// The official story
AWS us-east-1 single availability zone outage
// Status page says
May 8 , 01:12 UTC Investigating - We're aware that AWS is reporting availability zone failures in us-east-1. We are monitoring the situation but so far there is no customer impact.
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