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If Amazon is down, it is losing money. Amazon's infrastructure was designed to prevent downtime at all costs. This was primarily through services deployed acr
by thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
If Amazon is down, it is losing money.
Amazon's infrastructure was designed to prevent downtime at all costs. This was primarily through services deployed across data center clusters to ensure that even if a data center (or two!) went down, everything would continue to work.
AWS grew out of Amazon's "excess" infrastructure that was not used after holiday peaks had ended. AWS follows the same "no down time" design and most AWS products offer service agreements with strong estimates about how many "nines of availability" the service meets.
- superconduct123 3y agoI guess what I mean is why do other websites have scheduled downtime when AWS shows its not necessary? Is it just less work to take it offline?
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoCost and requirements. If a website goes offline, what impact does it have? For Amazon, offline equals lost profits. Thus staying online is an imperative. It is easy to have near 100% uptime on AWS because AWS was designed to support Amazon's requirements. It does cost more because you would need to configure for multiple availability zones and elastic scaling. Is the cost of that increased availability worth it to other web sites? Maybe or maybe not.