Does anyone know if this really is just one AZ? Seems like an awful lot of larger sites are down. I'd expect at least some of them to be multi-AZ by now.
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#42This would be a great time to post a guide to architecting systems for failover using AWS. Anyone got a great guide?
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#44Cloud hosting is not drastically different from any other type of service and is still vulnerable to the same problems.
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#45Cloud hosting is not drastically different from any other type of service and is still vulnerable to the same problems.
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#46This would be a great time to post a guide to architecting systems for failover using AWS. Anyone got a great guide?
http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/highavailability-infrastruc...
http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2011/04/22/why-twilio-wasn...
It's strategy as opposed to how-to but the principles apply.
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#47This would be a great time to post a guide to architecting systems for failover using AWS. Anyone got a great guide?
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#48Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
#49This would be a great time to post a guide to architecting systems for failover using AWS. Anyone got a great guide?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon is downplaying the problem. It is affecting many large sites.
Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.
If netflix is down, then it's something most companies who know how to design fail over can't cope with.