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

[Michael Christian]

Yes, this is not an Amazon problem, it's a misunderstanding of cloud.   You still need to be geographically distributed, and understand failover patterns. There are multiple distributed clouds, use them all.

MikeC


On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:10 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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