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Amazon outage spans clouds 'insulated' from each other
- samwww 15y agogood article. the big question really is how (in)dependent azs really are.
- willvarfar 15y agoThe article says amazon say it was caused by ebs replication between zones - one imagines some kind of thundering herd. Seems to explain it. No mystery here.
- fvbock 15y agoone would assume thought that that thundering herd would have to go through some kind of queue to avoid resources-starveing/dos-ing yourself... i hope that the postmortem they promise will shed some light onto the architecture.
- vokoda 15y agoInsulation means a failure can't spread from one availability zone to another. It doesn't prevent the same type of failure from occurring multiple times across different availability zones.
- wladimir 15y agoThis has interesting parallels with the financial crisis of 2008. People also first assumed several national economies were 'insulated' from each other. This assumption broke down very quickly. We are very good in underestimating the multitude of ways in which complex systems are connected.