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Netflix website and ability to instantly watch movies both unavailable.
- kldavis4 16y agoBeen down since at least 7pm eastern time.
- madmaze 16y agohmm I wonder if they ran into issues with ISPs
- barista 16y agoOr is this AWS again? I know they run a lot of infrastructure from AWS.
- famousactress 16y agoI wondered the same (selfishly.. we do too).. I thought only their Watch-Instantly streaming infra was on AWS though, and that main site is still self-hosted.
- imbriaco 16y agoNope, the main site is also hosted on EC2. I saw Adrian Cockroft give an abbreviated overview of their architecture recently. There's very little that isn't already on EC2 and they're actively working to move those things.
- timf 16y agoThe actual streaming is from CDN, though: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-innovators-netflix-strategy-reflects-google-philosophy http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-innovator...
- res0nat0r 16y agoI don't see any AWS outages today on the dashboard: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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- blhack 16y agoThat was also all greens a couple of days ago when reddit was down.
- JeremyHerrman 16y agoThe chaos monkey strikes again! http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/chaos-monkey-how-netflix-uses.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/chaos-monkey-how-n...
- rdtsc 16y agoDang! Beat me to it. It's evolving, adapting and spawning other chaos monkeys.
- famousactress 16y agoUpdates apparently coming via their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6275848869&topic=16956 http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6275848869&topic=1... [Edit]... course, not super complete ones.. We are aware that some customers may have trouble logging in to the website or streaming to their Television. We're working on getting this fixed as quickly as we can. Thank you everyone for your patience!
- mattdeboard 16y agoI am sure whatever capacity or technical problems they're experiencing are being exacerbated by millions and millions of emails from angry assholes wondering why the hell their $8 a month isn't buying them immediate and perpetual access to a catalog of human creativity and knowledge that would have brought even the most advanced intellectual from 1980 to his knees, weeping tears of joy at the wond'rous advances man has made. "Surely," he would say between sobs, "surely if man can accomplish this with something as relatively trivial as movies, a hundred years hence will see us spreading our race to the stars." Unfortunately all most people know or give a damn about is that they shove $8 into the magic box on their desk and it shits American Pie movies. Pan-galactic empire will have to wait, I guess. TV's busted!
- alecco 16y agoSure, but on the other hand they have been terrible communicating what is going on. Not really a good example for a service with millions of users. Most people are usually forgiving when you give them some reasons.
- brown9-2 16y agoSorry, what? You don't think customers have a right to be annoyed when the service they pay for is unavailable? I'm sure there are a lot of Netflix customers that fall somewhere between the range of not caring right now and the huge extreme you describe. Not sure what your point here is.
- mattdeboard 16y agoI am saying that I am sure the level of vitriol being directed at Netflix right now via email or other anonymous/private communications channels is disproportionate relative to the otherwise high value that is derived from an $8/mo luxury purchase. With tongue firmly in cheek I am urging calm in this moment of national crisis. In other words, it was a joke.
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- yoda_sl 16y agoI wonder if Netflix folks will follow up with a new blog post explaining what happened. Was the problem with a new code released to production or was it an AWS/infrastructure outside their control.
- jusob 16y agoMy daughter is streaming Netflix through our Blu-Ray player just fine ...
- rorrr 16y agoAmazon cloud raining again?
- Hominem 16y agoCan't stream here. Oh well I'll just go old school and watch one of the shows clogging up my DVR. Don't sweat it Netflixers
- padobson 16y ago10:41 EDT and it's not working on my PS3. I'd love to know what the real problem is, because I've been building everything on AWS as of late.
- nopassrecover 16y agoConsidering this seems to be working at the moment (2 hours later) does this really qualify as news? Sure, significant downtime might be of interest, but are we really going to link the URL of every web-service that is down for an hour or two here or there? A post about the causes or effects of said outage, or general related social commentary might be worthy of a HN submission - but to simply throw the URL of any service showing a 404 for some small amount of time seems a bit pointless (exceptions perhaps being Google/Facebook being down worldwide for a couple of hours).
- brndnhy 16y agoI suppose this became newsworthy on the heels of such posts as http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-amazon-ebs.html http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-... and much corporate blogging over the past few months about their migration to AWS.
- nopassrecover 16y agoI guess my point is, a post highlighting this relevance as your comment did makes it newsworthy, whereas "look some site is down" is mostly context-less for a lot of us.
- ankimal 16y agoIt would be great if someone from Netflix could comment on what happened. Seen nothing on their blog or facebook page. When websites go down, the idea is not to point and make fun but more to learn what and why because you ll find yourself in those shoes sooner than you think.