The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
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Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#2Great, insightful discussion of the key problem with people building on top of AWS today - it does not solve all of your problems. You still have to have an operations strategy, a high-availability strategy and a disaster recovery strategy. All AWS does for you is save you the cost of racking and maintaining your own servers.
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#3Not sure what is meant by "S3 has 11 nines of durability". Obviously not an availability number, but what is it?
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#4Even silver bullets are not silver bullets. You still need a weapon to fire the munition with, the ability and knowledge to properly use it, and the skill to actually land a lethal blow on the werewolf.
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#5Not sure what is meant by "S3 has 11 nines of durability". Obviously not an availability number, but what is it?
99.999999999% uptime?
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#6Not sure what is meant by "S3 has 11 nines of durability". Obviously not an availability number, but what is it?
99.999999999% uptime?
... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense.
I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
99.999999999% uptime?
... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense. I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.
Their explanation is here:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting
Looks like they're differentiating between durability ("99.999999999%") and availability ("99.99%").
So it's not uptime that has 11 9s…my mistake. Should have checked the documentation.
Re: The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
99.999999999% uptime?
... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense. I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.