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Us-East-1 took out commuter rail travel in Chicago for like a good 30 minutes, so not just companies
> Us-East-1 took out commuter rail travel in Chicago for like a good 30 minutes, so not just companies Was it Metra or the CTA out of curiosity?
Something I'm not getting there. OK, one zone went down in AWS. But there supposed to be multiple ones? And if somebody knows how to use AWS so that one zone going down wouldn't knock over the whole thing, it should be Amazon? I thought the whole point of this multi-zone cloud setup would be so that even if one zone goes down, it could survive and perform as usual - maybe a little slower for a bit while backups kick…
At the end of the day, building redundant systems is expensive (and may introduce whole new bugs), so they probably did the math and figured the risk of a whole region outage was less than the cost of building redundancy in some systems that are hard to make redundant.
(of course outages can happen and are to be expected especially at Amazon's scale, it's just the bad communication and the amateurish non-redundant setup of their own core services that is shocking)
Check out the Amazon Flex Drivers subreddit[0], there are tons of people saying they were paid for the day of deliveries without delivering any packages and told to go home. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/rb3ggn/i...
That's actually pretty nice though; even though people are missing out on packages at least Amazon won't leave them out in the cold for today.
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...
No, not true at all. What do you think Google and Microsoft run their cloud services on?
Whenever us-east-1 goes down you just get a really good feel for how many other companies also have pretty fragile setups. They apps I work on can deal with a few hours of downtime, so as long as I'm sure I can recover from getting totally leveled its ok. And I think it's that was for the majority of companies. Most don't want the extra effort and cost of failover.
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That's actually pretty nice though; even though people are missing out on packages at least Amazon won't leave them out in the cold for today.
My inner cynic says Amazon paid Flex drivers because A) they still need drivers available during the christmas run-up and B) screwing drivers would put Amazon in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like PR disaster.
Whenever us-east-1 goes down you just get a really good feel for how many other companies also have pretty fragile setups. They apps I work on can deal with a few hours of downtime, so as long as I'm sure I can recover from getting totally leveled its ok. And I think it's that was for the majority of companies. Most don't want the extra effort and cost of failover.
I'm just surprised Amazon was not using something sectioned off from the rest of AWS.