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Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

by schappim 5y ago

apexalpha 5y ago
It sure looks like a AWS error, even Amazon.com is mostly down.
- deleted 5y ago
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lpmitchell 5y ago
The m.media-amazon.com domain (and a few other CDN'd domains that they use) are running through Fastly: nslookup m.media-amazon.com Name: media.amazon.map.fastly.net It is very interesting that they are not using CloudFront!
- tester34 5y ago
  Why?
- jamespo 5y ago
  Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.
  - longwave 5y ago
    They already have: $ host m.media-amazon.com m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com. c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84 (which is a Cloudfront IP)
  - xmdx 5y ago
    Yep they did exactly this and are now running on cloudfront
- cowsandmilk 5y ago
  really, m.media-amazon.com seems to have a very short TTL (showing 37 seconds right now) and has been weighted to cloudfront now. Amazon is also known to use Akamai. Sure, Amazon relies heavily on AWS, but why should it surprise anyone that a retail website obsessed with instant loading of pages decides to use non-AWS CDNs if the performance is better. Even if CloudFront became the default, I'm certain amazon.com would keep contracts with fastly and akamai just so they can weight traffic away from CloudFront in an outage.
threeseed 5y ago
AWS is reporting no issues across the regions: https://status.aws.amazon.com https://status.aws.amazon.com
- speedgoose 5y ago
  AWS is almost never reporting issues on this page.
- object_Object 5y ago
  AWS don't report outages until it's undoubtedly them.
adzicg 5y ago
looks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 (https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...) so it's not an AWS thing
lordpankake 5y ago
Fastly doesn't run on AWS.
alex_duf 5y ago
Fastly deploy their own hardware, (That's one of their selling points) I don't think they rely much on AWS, maybe just for network interconnection?

Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

apexalpha 5y ago

It sure looks like a AWS error, even Amazon.com is mostly down.

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lpmitchell 5y ago

The m.media-amazon.com domain (and a few other CDN'd domains that they use) are running through Fastly: nslookup m.media-amazon.com Name: media.amazon.map.fastly.net It is very interesting that they are not using CloudFront!

tester34 5y ago
Why?
jamespo 5y ago
Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.
- longwave 5y ago
  They already have: $ host m.media-amazon.com m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com. c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84 (which is a Cloudfront IP)
- xmdx 5y ago
  Yep they did exactly this and are now running on cloudfront
cowsandmilk 5y ago
really, m.media-amazon.com seems to have a very short TTL (showing 37 seconds right now) and has been weighted to cloudfront now. Amazon is also known to use Akamai. Sure, Amazon relies heavily on AWS, but why should it surprise anyone that a retail website obsessed with instant loading of pages decides to use non-AWS CDNs if the performance is better. Even if CloudFront became the default, I'm certain amazon.com would keep contracts with fastly and akamai just so they can weight traffic away from CloudFront in an outage.

threeseed 5y ago

AWS is reporting no issues across the regions: https://status.aws.amazon.com https://status.aws.amazon.com

speedgoose 5y ago
AWS is almost never reporting issues on this page.
object_Object 5y ago
AWS don't report outages until it's undoubtedly them.

adzicg 5y ago

looks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 (https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...) so it's not an AWS thing

lordpankake 5y ago

Fastly doesn't run on AWS.

alex_duf 5y ago

Fastly deploy their own hardware, (That's one of their selling points) I don't think they rely much on AWS, maybe just for network interconnection?