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203 points mooreds | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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sharklasers123 ◴[17 Nov 25 19:09 UTC] No.45956864[source]▶

Is there not an inherent risk using an AWS service (Route 53) to do the health check? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use a different cloud provider for redundancy?

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1. indigodaddy ◴[17 Nov 25 19:35 UTC] No.45957292[source]▶

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Had the same thought, eg if things are really down can it even do the check etc

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2. hnuser123456 ◴[17 Nov 25 21:03 UTC] No.45958262[source]▶

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Ask some friends and family if you can install an RPi on their home network that monitors your service.

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How when AWS was down, we were not