EC2 ap-southeast-2 status failures

[Tim Penhey]

On 23/04/13 11:29, David Cheney wrote:
>> On 23/04/13 00:37, David Cheney wrote:
>>> The usual smoking gnu is if it works inside us-east-1 (the legacy zone)
>>> and fails everywhere else.
>>>
>>> Also, don't forget to make your control bucket name short, no more than
>>> 20 chars.
>>
>> Ah... why?
> 
> Because bucket names must also be valid dns names. In theory DNS is
> limited to 64 char names, and 256 total length, so, len(name) < 64 &&
> len(name.amazons3.com) < 256. However in practice we've found the limit
> to be even lower.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1029976
> 
> and friends.

We should make our default control bucket names smaller than their
current 27 characters then.

Tim