Amazon was Down

Post by ankitml » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #44

A while ago, someone claiming to have worked at Amazon said that downtime doesn't really affect things as much as you'd think. He said most people simply just come back later. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147461 [Edit: That being said, there's also the statistic that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1%. Imagine what 20+ minutes of "latency" would do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900 ]

Post by crucifiction » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #15

At an estimated loss of $31,000 per minute http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.to... I'm blown away that I see Amazon goes down so often. That certainly, in my mind, doesn't bode well for the brand of AWS.

Post by danielovichdk » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 6:49 AM UTC

Post by ankitml » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 6:56 AM UTC

troels wrote: post #64

ankitml wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the latency vs cost curve will not be linear. After some latency, increase in latency wont affect cost much.

Also, latency (a constant lack of resources) and down time (an extraordinary lack of resources) are two very different things. I wouldn't be surprised if some down time had little impact on sales, whereas latency has a lot.

Post by philh » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 7:15 AM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #46

kamkazemoose wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Amazon really go down that often? Is there any data how often/ for how long Amazon does go down? I wonder how it compares to other sites that get the same amount of traffic.

It probably doesn't, but you notice every time it does. It went down once in the last couple weeks as well, if I remember right.