October 20th's AWS outage caused ~~20% of nostr relays to go down per ser @sandwich of nostr.watch
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Around 20% of relays were affected for some period of time from what I noticed.
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true. us-east-1 is one of the largest data centers... either way. relays are easy to run. proof that they can be resilient and run anywhere...
That's surprising, but honestly pretty good seeing as running a relay and making it accessible from the outside world isn't all that easy just yet.