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I thought it was silly how everyone was going apeshit the last time this happened. Even here on HN people were falling over themselves proclaiming the end of t
by dstein 15y ago
I thought it was silly how everyone was going apeshit the last time this happened. Even here on HN people were falling over themselves proclaiming the end of the cloud. But you know what, I kind of like seeing outages like this because it means Amazon is (hopefully) going to reduce the risk of a bug like this ever happening again which in the end just makes the platform more reliable in the future.
- sjs 15y agoTo be fair the last one was a lot longer than a 1/2 hour and even though it was a small percentage there was permanent data loss. 0.06% of 100 PB is 60 TB which is still a lot of data. I have no idea how much data they store in one DC, maybe somebody could hazard a real guess.
- cperciva 15y agothe last one was a lot longer than a 1/2 hour and even though it was a small percentage there was permanent data loss There was permanent data loss on EBS volumes, which are explicitly stated to be vulnerable to data loss.
- rmc 15y agothe last one was a lot longer than a 1/2 hour About 25% of EU west instances have been down for about 36 hours now...
- sjs 15y agoOh! I did not know that.