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		rad_gruchalski on June 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page When the wind blows in the right direction. Sometimes, your server would get stuck in provisioning for hours and only get „un-stuck” after creating a support ticket. Which, I kid you not, at one of the previous jobs, wd had automated in our provisioning popeline. Good times. But when it worked, it worked. API was voodoo.

bashinator on June 10, 2020 | [–]

I just discovered this today:

    aws support create-case \
        --subject "not working" \
        --communication-body file://description.txt

Kinrany on June 9, 2020 | [–]

Fixing provisioning based on support tickets might have been automated on their side too :)

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