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failure tolerance is an alien technology for amazon...

• divideby0 11y ago
  that's completely untrue. there are many ways to do fault-tolerance in AWS. it's expensive, but it's possible. netflix even goes as far as simulating the failure of entire aws regions in their simian army testing suite: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html That's why Netflix stays up when us-east or us-west are down.
  • beagledude 11y ago
    Netflix is down.
    • veverkap 11y ago
      Works fine for me
  • kordless 11y ago
    It is true. Amazon offloads a decent amount of fault tolerance to the application provider, as you point out here. I will also mention that Netflix does not solely rely on Amazon for running their services. They run their own decentralized caching layer: https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/