[Outages-discussion] [outages] Amazon.com is down...

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:45:10PM -0700, Joe Hamelin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Doug McClelland <doug.mcclelland at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > They are even reporting it on CNBC...
> >
> > "Temporarily down while improvements are made. Will be open for business
> > again soon"
> >
> 
> When I was in Amazon network engineering we called that the "Gone Fishing"
> page. Basic static server for when the DB takes a crap.  Of course that was
> back in 2000 when Gone Fishing was a single 600MHz Pent 3 box running BSD
> and Apache.  I'm sure it's a bit more complex setup now ;)

And what did you call this?

http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/amazon-outage-no-its-not-you/

(Readers: please note the datestamp in the URL -- this is just me asking
a generic question unrelated to today's outage)

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