[outages] After Action: Thanksgiving AWS US-East-1 outage: sharding

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Nov 30 09:16:44 EST 2020


Here is an article - with a link to the formal AWS after Action Report - about the outage last week which took down a bunch of services in the process. They were trying to expand capacity in their Kinesis cluster, and sharding got them.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-heres-what-caused-major-aws-outage-last-week-apologies/

I've put this on the main list because I know it has two or three times the subscriber count of -discussion, but I do recommend that we continue conversation about this, if there should be any, on the -discussion list.
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/attachments/20201130/719e8754/attachment.htm>


More information about the Outages mailing list