[deleted]
Amazon Web Services are down
61–70 of 346 posts
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slightly offtopic, but wasn't that post by an ex-employee as a comment? Not that the technical aspect of it wasn't fantastic, because it was, but I don't think Reddit said anything publically did they?
It was, you are right, I misremembered. valisystem's comments above contains the reference.
Yes valisystem linked to it. All good, I wasn't sure if I misremembered.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#63AWS/S3 has become the new Windows - great SPOF to go for if you want to attack. This space needs more competition.
Two years ago TechCrunch was publishing an article every time Rackspace went down listing all the hot startups down along with it. AWS is no more a SPOF than any other major hosting provider.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#64AWS/S3 has become the new Windows - great SPOF to go for if you want to attack. This space needs more competition.
[deleted]
It is more noticeable since so many large sites use it. Kind of like a MS BSOD was a common joke because so many people used MS Windows.
If we were all having our own rental servers then.... well, many sites that we know wouldn't be around :)
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought AZs were supposed to be different physical data centers. If that is not the case, then having a multi-region setup would be a necessity for any major sites on AWS. Perhaps there will be a time where to truly be redundant, one would need to use multiple cloud providers. Which would be a _huge_ pain to do now I imagine, with all the provider lock-ins we have.
> I thought AZs were supposed to be different physical data centers. They are. Which means this is probably a software issue or some other systemic issue.
Well that isn't supposed to happen :(
I think I'll go home and wait it out there, but it appears that they are having some progress in recovering it. But our site is still affected.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#66Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#67They better start writing their explanation now. Multiple AZ's affected?
They better be cutting me a check too.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#68It's a bit ironic that Amazon WS has become a SPoF for half the internet.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#69A couple of hours into the failure, and no sign of coverage on Techcrunch (they're posting "business" stories though). It shows how detached Techcrunch has become from the startup world.
Edit: I tweeted their European editor about it and he's posted a story up now.
Re: Amazon Web Services are down
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ok, it's a bomb scare and the building's shutdown for 12 hours. How I was supposed to get ' "relying", as in "depending on the cloud without any alternative backup" ' from what your originally wrote, I don't know.
I'm sorry if you didn't understand "relying" as I meant it. I'm not a native speaker, so my assumption of the meaning of "relying" may have been wrong.
I'll try to elaborate: yes, there are of course certain things that you cannot avoid. That's why I meant you should not "rely"/"depend on the cloud without any alternative backup" on the cloud being available. Redundancy, if your service is crucial!
If you're a small company, and cannot go to your building for a day, well then I hope you're not that important so no big damage (financial or otherwise) is caused. Just enjoy your free day ;-) But if there's a bomb threat in, for example, a hospital, I surely hope they have some kind of backup plan!
Cloud as an alternative mechanism, or maybe even the primary resource for your site -- great, why not! But please don't just throw everything into "the cloud" trusting on the belief that the cloud's operator is impossible to fail.