As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
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Re: Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
#52I thought the whole point of AWS that it was a distributed system with no one point of failure? In that case, how did it have an outage?
https://status.aws.amazon.com/ says that multiple network devices failed.
They very carefully did not actually say that. The weasel wording used could be a routing configuration error, among other things.
Re: Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
#53I thought this story was about this house x-) "Neighbors in Tennessee city worry as Amazon packages pile up outside home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQjEB2sxBw
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#54I thought this story was about this house x-) "Neighbors in Tennessee city worry as Amazon packages pile up outside home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQjEB2sxBw
I don't even understand what's going on with this one. Transcribing the blurb from the clip, from interviewing the residents of the house: "[The people who live in the house] have a friend who has a contract with an Amazon warehouse in China. They say whenever that friend's contract expires, she will send the packages to their house for the family to sort and then send back to Amazon for the company to sell."
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#55I thought the whole point of AWS that it was a distributed system with no one point of failure? In that case, how did it have an outage?
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#56"If it bleeds we can kill it"
Imagine ransomware targeting Amazon and spilling into the real world logistics, how much ransom could they charge.
Re: Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
#57Yeah my packages didn't get delivered today. I assume there will be cascading delays for the rest of the week. Getting close to xmas travel times, trying to finish up my shopping this week.
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#58As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
Source? I'd be surprised if Google does not dog food. Though, I guess when GCP had their recent global load balancer outage but neither Gmail or Google search went down maybe not.
Re: Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
#59As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
> Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
That is simply not true.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-moves-closer-to-runn...
Re: Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
#60I thought the whole point of AWS that it was a distributed system with no one point of failure? In that case, how did it have an outage?
A lot of AWS is very old and it's very hard to go back and make everything nice and reliable without breaking things when you have a shitload of customers 24/7 using your services.
So yes, in theory much of AWS's services are probably very reliable and distributed across AZs and regions, but in practice there's likely a whole bunch of debt where one thing gets fucked up and it cascades.