[Outages-discussion] [outages] Fwd: RE: FYI Netflix is down

[Paul Ferguson]

I'm looking forward to additional details on this outage -- Netflix
has previously avoided EC2 outages due to their creative use of Chaos
Monkey:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

FYI,

- ferg

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Kevin Blackham <blackham at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/
>
> "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public
> cloud versus using your own data centers."
>
> Let me fix that: "The outage underscores the lack of attention to
> failure tolerance by many affected services." Building my own sites
> isn't going to keep them from failing. Every datacenter will fail
> eventually.
>
> Granted, when an Amazon AZ fails, history has shown the thrash induced
> by recovery mechanisms can also take out adjacent AZs (e.g. network
> overloads vs. EBS), but that doesn't stop an architect from
> considering regional redundancy.
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