During AWS outage, one engineer kept enterprise services up with just 22 min downtime
generativist · x · 2026-09-12
generativist recounts keeping enterprise services running with Fable through the AWS mega-outage: migrating across zones ("yolo fail"-style, switching ports and locations), keeping redundant instances up and routing around shutdowns, for only 22 minutes of total downtime all day.
A follow-up notes service recovered right around the time of loudly complaining on Twitter, suggesting an automated AWS system had gotten into a really bad state. A rare public post-mortem-style account of riding out the outage.
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