Snowflake Is Down Globally

https://status.snowflake.com/

by bpodgursky • 5 years ago

78 17 5 years ago

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marcinzm• 5 years ago

Looks to be their authentication layer since existing connections kept working even when new connections couldn't be made.

bpodgursky2• 5 years ago

Yeah, hard to see what else would take down every region at once.

SigmundA• 5 years ago

It always seems to be auth, the gatekeeper is the single point of failure in many systems it seems.

WFHRenaissance2• 5 years ago

This status page... the lack of updates... it's like watching snow melt

bpodgursky2• 5 years ago

Global outages make a lot of people feel good about not bothering to set up multi-region deployments though.

klyrs• 5 years ago

I came here expecting global warming jokes.

WFHRenaissance2• 5 years ago

It would make sense if the outage was constrained to US-West, given the heatwave and all.

ApolloFortyNine2• 5 years ago

Yikes, there's not separating availability zones, then there's not separating entire regions and continents.

x86_64Ubuntu• 5 years ago

They may have a single point of failure shared in a sub-sub-sub-service. Or, they may have pushed not-so-great code into all regions/zones and whatnot.

toomuchtodo• 5 years ago

AWS IAM is no different.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678

ApolloFortyNine2• 5 years ago

That post mentions us-east-1, so it's not really the same (limited to region).

slenk2• 5 years ago

I wonder if that is what is causing the Slack issues

rshm• 5 years ago

Whats happening with the slack now ?

slenk2• 5 years ago

Was slow to load messages for quite a bit. Seems fixed though

coolspot• 5 years ago

I appreciate their honest status page.

In contrast to Amazon/Cloudflare’s “some users may experience delays” when in fact everything is down for a whole continent.

londons_explore• 5 years ago

The "some users" wording comes from the fact that at any point in time only a small proportion of users are trying to use the service.

Anyone not using the service when it is down isn't experiencing a service outage.

dgudkov• 5 years ago

Wow, Snowflake can do incident notification via webhooks! Pretty cool.

Snowflake Is Down Globally

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