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Apple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.
They also use AT&T and Azure for storage too. You did hear that from me, or anyone else with a firewall running on OS X.
and Google Cloud Storage as well!
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#103Do these things ever go red? I mean, I understand the disincentive to do this, but for something like AWS (where error icons are even more subtle than this) I care about accuracy way more than looking scary.
Very occasionally: https://statusgator.com/services/apple (Side project of mine)
Really cool idea / site.
Most startups / side projects these days seem to use a cloud hosting service... But you're project is meant to work especially when the cloud hosting providers are down.
Where are you hosted? Or do you host on multiple services?
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Just for the record, our company has found that Amazon occasionally omits incidents from their status page, though I doubt they could get away with omitting something this significant.
All of the cloud providers have an incentive to downplay incidents and only post them to the status page when they're really bad. The bar is pretty high to get something on there.
I mean, they outline them in their fineprint. Amazon doesn't consider the unavailability of 1 EC2 availability zone an outage because their position is that you should be architecting around that. 2 or more AZ outages in the same region and it'll show up on their status page IIRC.
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I deployed a status board once. I was forced by the higher ups to take it down. Something about it sending the wrong message to our clients. Sending out emails once an hour with status updates was way more productive.
I have the "internal status dashboard" (read: "notifications of individual instance or app downtime") for us, and the "external status dashboard" (which is the app status from the front of the load balancer) for the higher ups to show to customers.
Our network monitoring software has a dashboard we use internally. Our external monitor was a Google Apps project that was manually updated. Never got far enough into it to automate it, yet.
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#106Could this be related? Today we got an email from Amazon that our EC2 instance server has degraded hardware. We have until June 16 to spin up a new server before they kill this one.
I've gotten emails from them about a degraded instance and having until date X to spin up a new server.
... only I had already spun up a new server. Because the existing instance wasn't working. Getting their system to terminate the old instance required several attempts and force termination before it succeeded.
Considering their scale, I would expect better handling of the edge cases.
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Apple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.
You just have to run littlesnitch, and see all the AWS servers that Apple applications hit. I don't think it's a secret that a ton of Apple applications are backended by AWS.
Indeed, I've read multiple articles about it, some of which seem to have been fed by the Apple PR machine:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-cuts-aws-spending-signs-w...
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All hail Little Snitch. So much insight available in that app. I wish there were rule sets for Little Snitch like there are for AdBlock Plus.
lost -i in the Terminal.app will do this as well. With a little grep-fu you could have yourself a good watchdog.
I get 'command not found' so I'm assuming I have to install something? But I can't find anything when I search Google because of the generic name.
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lost -i in the Terminal.app will do this as well. With a little grep-fu you could have yourself a good watchdog.
I get 'command not found' so I'm assuming I have to install something? But I can't find anything when I search Google because of the generic name.
I believe he meant to write `lsof -i`