A 'The Register' article post last evening... "AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' - which now appears almost complete" The article was then updated this morning, with an updated status at the end of the article.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/07/aws_wobbles_is_us_east/ Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1979 active; 1979-1991, reserves; including two years with the Ohio Air National Guard) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 (z/OS Network Software Consultant) Email: marktre...@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-t-regan On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:33 AM kekronbekron < 000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Critical infra in some places, sure, not everyone is denying that. > At the moment of urgent need, do people really buy something and wait for > MF to finish processing, for them to be then allowed to continue breathing? > What happened to the interim stages (logstics etc). > It sounds as though failure to buy/order something immediately is going to > lead to their death... is what's being said. > Sounds pretty privileged to me. > > It also sounds like it's assumed that mainframes will last 500 years, no? > Did the world not exist before 1960s? > Did people automatically die before 1960s because they didn't have MF? > > Are people and organizations not allowed to be wrong (to their own > detriment), etc. > Are we sure that 100% of all information out there is truth, apart from > this announcement that AWS wants to replace MF? > > We can all like MF, but don't need to act like it's the sole saviour of > humanity. > Again that means that all technology that evolved since then is a complete > waste of time and people's efforts. > Sounds pretty delusional to me... just to convey that MFs are good servers. > > - KB > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Bill Johnson < > 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > AWS had a larger & longer outage today, than all the outages on the > mainframes I’ve worked on in the last 30 years. Much worse. Yet, some here > think AWS is going to replace the mainframe for critical applications like > banking, health care, big retail, and insurance. Plus, the mainframe > has had plenty of negative posts here in the decades I’ve been involved. > Nobody dies when Netflix isn’t available. (One of the hits from today) > people can and do die if the drugs they need aren’t available because the > computer system is down. > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 11:01 PM, kekronbekron > 000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > > > > Not at anybody in particular: > > > > Do we have to make snide remarks because someone else had an outage? > > > > Don't we remember the times when things on the mainframe itself went > south? > > > > Has every site's MF env. been 100% available through all these decades? > > > > Is it wrong to fail sometimes? > > > > Is this the attitude with which you'd like to retire, holding onto > precious remarks and burning the path behind you as you leave? > > > > What does that say about one's mentality and outlook in life? > > > > - KB > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 3:54 AM, Ronald Wells > 000002ebc63ff5ef-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > > > > > Pretty pic/web pages make the $$ did you not get the memo > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On > Behalf Of John McKown > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:57 PM > > > > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > > > > Subject: Re: AWS is down. > > > > > > ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION ** > > > > > > Oh, but they advertise that they can replace mainframe. Well, maybe > the processing. But not the on site reliability. Of course, for WFH, the > internet is the week point. And, most likely, also the home equipment. I > just had to reboot my Windows PC at home because it decided to stop talking > to my internet router. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:49 Bill Johnson < > 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > Amazon Web Services is down. I can’t get to my pictures. Glad we > don’t > > > > > > > > have our mainframe running there. > > > > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > > > > > > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > Email Disclaimer > > > > > > This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, > which may be legally privileged information. 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