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I wish it wasn't true. On all the occasions, I was told that there was "an issue with the underlying hardware".
by 0xmohit 10y ago
I wish it wasn't true. On all the occasions, I was told that there was "an issue with the underlying hardware".
- bpicolo 10y agoSure, but that's very different than them being intended as ephemeral.
- 0xmohit 10y agoI didn't suggest that those are ephemeral.
- jasonlotito 10y agoYes, yes you did. Sargun posted: "EC2 instances are meant to be ephemeral" to which bpicolo replied: "That doesn't sound factual at all." You then replied with: "I wish it wasn't true." _it_ in this case refers to the ephemeral state of EC2 instances. You literally did suggest they were ephemeral.
- cookiecaper 10y agoYes, this happens sometimes with AWS. We're heavy users and have had to respawn instances on several different occasions due to unexpected issues with the underlying hardware. Only once or twice has AWS told us they're moving us because of that, but we've noticed performance issues that after troubleshooting with support, could only be described as a symptom of the hardware. Everyone should have backups and a plan in place to recover when a node goes offline, but this isn't exclusive to AWS or cloud in general. A robust infrastructure will have failovers standing by and accept the possibility that any one machine could die at any moment. Shouldn't have any single points of failure, as colocated hardware kicks the bucket unexpectedly sometimes too.
- CPLX 10y agoIt is worth noting that "the cloud" is synonymous with "someone else's computer"
- dragonwriter 10y ago> It is worth noting that "the cloud" is synonymous with "someone else's computer" Well, no, its not, otherwise "private cloud" would be incoherent.