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We use EBS, and had machines in the availability zone that went down that were affected. Those machines were out for longer than a day, but we were back up wit
by tednaleid 15y ago
We use EBS, and had machines in the availability zone that went down that were affected. Those machines were out for longer than a day, but we were back up within an hour because we had redundancies built in across other availability zones.
If you're doing anything that matters, you can't rely on a single zone/machine/whatever, no matter who your hosting provider is.
- streptomycin 15y agoSo you're saying we need a cloud of clouds?
- derefr 15y agoJust a higher level of abstraction. Many people don't want to care about what zone they're running in, or really anything about the machine (or even virtual machine) they're running on; they just want to run their apps "somewhere" that persists through hardware problems. Maintaining such a thing isn't Amazon's charter, though; it's more the job of a cloud application hosting provider, like Heroku (who I'm surprised isn't multi-homing their apps on several clouds by now for just this reason.)
- ericd 15y agoSounds like a certain exotic financial instrument...