oh, dear! - oooooops.

[sadkingbilly]

the dangers of 'someone else's server'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt

[WTFH]

Anyone seen suityou01 ?

[Uncle Albert]

Anyone seen suityou01 ?

Last heard of advising the Louvre on security.

[CoolCat]

Last heard of advising the Louvre on security.

lol made me laugh

[NickFitz]

It's always us-east-1 (North Virginia). I don't understand quite why UK banks are relying on us-east-1 rather than using eu-west-2 (London). I believe various operations are a few hundredths of a cent cheaper over there, and I suppose that mounts up

[secwombat]

It's always us-east-1 (North Virginia). I don't understand quite why UK banks are relying on us-east-1 rather than using eu-west-2 (London). I believe various operations are a few hundredths of a cent cheaper over there, and I suppose that mounts up

More likely their outsourced partners clicking "next next next" on the set up wizards and the default region is US-EAST

Oh - and it's always DNS ...

[ladymuck]

HWMBO mentioned yesterday that there's some core services that are only served from the US and aren't replicated elsewhere...

EDIT: ah yes, here's the article
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/..._outage_chaos/