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Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by hendi_ »

jedberg wrote: post #59
hendi_ wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Go back to the building metaphor. Building datacenters is not our core business, so we outsource it. Much like building a building is not our core business, nor running a telephone system, so we outsource those things too. All business critical, but still outsourced.

Of course it's okay to outsource things; and it's also okay to outsource critical stuff. I'm doing that too.

But, outsourced or not, critical things should be as redundant as needed, and not relying on a single point of failure.

If in a hospital a life-keeping machine depends on electricity, I hope they have diesel generators available even if their outsourced power supply fails.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by elliottcarlson »

mathrawka wrote: post #71

So do we get some credit on our AWS accounts? I haven't really read their SLA for EC2.

"In the event Amazon EC2 does not meet the Annual Uptime Percentage commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described below."

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by jrnkntl »

guynamedloren wrote: post #29
yuvadam wrote: post #2

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.

Indeed they are. Right before the issues began, I pushed a bad update to one of my Heroku apps, causing it to crash. A minute later I fixed the bug, re-pushed the git repo to Heroku... and nothing. I've been stuck with an error message on my website for hours. Unfortunate timing!

Staging servers are an easy thing on Heroku :)

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by griosa »

bhrgunatha wrote: post #66
jedberg wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you get a 4 day weekend?

Whichever date Easter Sunday falls on, the Friday before it (Good Friday) and Monday after (Easter Monday) are both public holidays.

Getting the 26,27,28th off from work is just genius for a long break!

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by buyx »

taitems wrote: post #49
athesyn wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My four-day weekend is already off to a bad start(UK here).

It could be worse/better, you could have an Australian 5-day weekend.

Or a South African 11 day weekend. Easter, and then public holidays on 27 April and 1/2 May are combining this year to provide a massive holiday opportunity.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

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Post by masklinn »

chrislomax wrote: post #52
jedberg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Believe me, the last thing I want is to be up at 3am working on this. I'd much rather be sleeping and letting you not work.

Are you part of the team resolving it?

"Resolving" probably isn't the right word seeing as this is a purely amazon issue, not much they can do.

I'm guessing jedberg is mostly banging his head in walls and seriously looking at alternative hosting solutions right now.

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Post by mike-cardwell »

taitems wrote: post #49
athesyn wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My four-day weekend is already off to a bad start(UK here).

It could be worse/better, you could have an Australian 5-day weekend.

UK Universities give staff the Tuesday too, giving them a five day weekend. I took two days holiday next week and because of Easter and the Royal Wedding that gives me 11 days off straight.
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