Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more

Post by zhoutong » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 7:35 AM UTC

heretohelp wrote: post #11

lubos wrote: post #7

It's interesting how AWS outage didn't take down Amazon.com.

That would be because Amazon.com doesn't use AWS.

Post by revertts » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 8:37 AM UTC

heretohelp wrote: post #11

lubos wrote: post #7

It's interesting how AWS outage didn't take down Amazon.com.

That would be because Amazon.com doesn't use AWS.

Post by FixThisPOSSite » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 8:42 AM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #5

If Pinterest is down, then there may be a net gain for the internet.

Post by asenchi » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 9:16 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #9

tansey wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heroku doesn't. They are on US-East.

Heroku is single-AZ within US-East, not even multiple-AZ.

Post by tomjen3 » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

meiji wrote: post #2

From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers." No it doesn't. It underscores the vulnerabilities of not understanding your hosting and accepting the "no outages" slogans of ANY cloud. A single data centre is always susceptible to outages like this, it doesn't matter who owns it. If any of those sites had owned a single data centre t…