Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
prof@infosec.pub 1 day agoWell… Afaik the AWS outage only affected a certain region. So the company could have just deployed their online service in two different regions for redundancy.
Or even better. Enable Offline Support 😐
elvith@feddit.org 1 day ago
Wasn’t it also some kind of DNS problem on top?
prof@infosec.pub 1 day ago
You tell me, haha 😄
DNS usually is a bit of an issue when TTL is too high and the stuff the records point to isn’t available.