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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
Isn't that a design flaw in Heroku? Shouldn't you be able to log into Heroku and change stuff like that even if the entire of Amazons cloud service is down?
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"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.
Actaully, I'm on the couch in front of the fireplace, watching old SNL, waiting patiently for Amazon to fix their shit, and figuring out how we can not use EBS anymore.
Amazon's EC2 SLA is extremely clear - a given region has an availability of 99.95%. If you're running a website and you haven't deployed across across more than one region then, by definition, your website will have 99.95% availailbility. If you want a higher level of availability use more than one region. Amazon's EBS SLA is less clear, but they state that they expect an annual failure rate of 0.1-0.5%, compared to…
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To clarify, this Monday is ANZAC Day, a commemorative holiday for troops who fought for Australia. Because that's also Easter Monday, the ANZAC Day holiday is moved to Tuesday, despite commemorative services being held on Monday.
Actually the official line is that Easter Monday got moved to Tuesday.
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If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. Do you disagree? Why do you disagree? I'm being honest, no snark involved in my questions.
> If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously We do. > they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. It's far too costly to do that. We are deployed across multiple AZs, but this failure hit multiple AZs.
Gah! You can't always account for all the failure modes that Amazon might have.
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If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. Do you disagree? Why do you disagree? I'm being honest, no snark involved in my questions.
The whole point of AWS is to forget about maintaining hardware infrastructure. Amazon are the ones who should have made backups in multiple regions, and transfer the load on failure.
The amount of services I use that depends on Amazon is amazing. They have really become the utility company of the Web.
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Thankfully, no. :) But yeah, right now we're shutting everything down to try and avoid possible data corruption. Once they restore service, hopefully we'll be able to come back quickly.
Amazon is really not being kind to you guys; I sort of hope you'll find an alternative solution fast!