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Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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I think this is a good example of how the "cloud" is not a silver bullet to making your site always up. AWS provides a way to keep it up, but it is up to each developer to ensure that they are using AWS in a way to make sure their site can handle problems in one availability zone. I think we will see more of a focus from big users of AWS about focusing on how to create a redundant service using AWS. Or at least I hop…

NetFlix should sell their chaos monkey as a commercial product.

Don't let AWS hear that, or they'll charge us for their failures by rebranding it as a feature.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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post #16

Yay for relying on the cloud \o/

That's like saying "yay for relying on a datacenter"

Note that I've written "relying", not "hosting", meaning I'm well aware of the fact that using "the cloud" as an additional layer of capacity can be a good thing.

But relying on the cloud means that you're giving up control.

Power outage in your data center? Buy diesel generators next time! Faulty network card? Put in two redundant ones!

AWS down? Wait and pray!

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.

Not all EC2 & EBS instances are down. I have several in US-east-1a and 1 is down, while all of the others are working.

We're fine on EC2 -- but everything on RDS seems to be giving us big problems. We started a few backups before we new it was systemic, and all of them are stuck at 0%. We also tried spinning up new instances -- and they're all stuck in booting.

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post #16

Yay for relying on the cloud \o/

Yes! It's like those dumb people that rent out 5 floors of a 100 story building, instead of building their own SkyScraper. Then, horror of horrors, 2 of the 8 lifts breaks down for 12 hours. Such idiots for paying rent, even though building SkyScrapers isn't their core business.

Thank you. I'm totally stealing this next time someone uses that "cloud is for idiots" line.

This is an excellent metaphor.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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post #16

Yay for relying on the cloud \o/

Yes! It's like those dumb people that rent out 5 floors of a 100 story building, instead of building their own SkyScraper. Then, horror of horrors, 2 of the 8 lifts breaks down for 12 hours. Such idiots for paying rent, even though building SkyScrapers isn't their core business.

Poor analogy; if the lifts break, just use the stairs.

Note that I've written "relying", as in "depending on the cloud without any alternative backup". Depending on the cloud means depending on something you cannot influence.

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