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maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist? or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition to IPv6? So many questions.
Cory Doctorow's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth touches on this - what happens to the internet activity during a global crisis? http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
I wonder what it would take for amazon to show one of the yellow icons on their status page? Has it ever happened? Would a datacenter have to fall in the ocean?
Seems that "S3 offline" is the AWS equivalent of a datacenter falling into the ocean. Gotta wonder how many services are using S3 as a faux message queue?
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That would actually turn it green again, I think.
maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist? or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition to IPv6? So many questions.
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Reading this article, it seems that starting at 1.6 the default TTL became 30s.
It's not true as far as I can tell. You need this flag set or it keeps DNS entries forever, at least on the JVM we run (Oracle, 1.8u51).
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What is the last time that AWS gets two consecutive major outages within, maybe, 30 days?
Last one was 10 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980222
Could this be a reason why Heroku is misbehaving? https://status.heroku.com/incidents/792K
I can't help but be a little surprised that Heroku's entire build system is disabled by an S3 failure in one region. Now I'm unable to add a notice about the issues to my site's HTML...
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The EC2 launch thing is still green even though all launches fail for us.
Could you expand what you mean? Is that because your launch is trying to fetch something from s3?
Open-source library request: A library that lets you use S3 and Google Storage Cloud simultaneously and fail-back to another if one have problems. There are many use-case when paying 2x for storage is a reasonable tradeoff for higher availability and also be provider independent.
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Could you expand what you mean? Is that because your launch is trying to fetch something from s3?
There was a period in which I couldn't launch instances. Meaning the instance state did not ever reach "running" according to the console and were not responsive to initial ssh attempts. (knife timed out after 5 minutes and the machines were still unavailable after several more)