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Once again proof that "the cloud" isn't always the best solution. I am amazed that a cloud provider like Amazon can still suffer from outages considering the si
by DigitalSea 14y ago
Once again proof that "the cloud" isn't always the best solution. I am amazed that a cloud provider like Amazon can still suffer from outages considering the size of their cloud infrastructure and supposedly being decoupled, obviously not decoupled enough. Perhaps it's my lack of understanding of cloud hosting, but when issues like this present themselves it obviously shows that cloud hosting has a long way to go.
- jwilliams 14y agoWhat's the alternative? Go it alone and run your own infrastructure?
- davidwparker 14y agoAgreed. 99.97% uptime for May is excellent. I've worked with a lot of enterprise systems (to include military!) and we would love to have that high % of uptime.
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- icebraining 14y agoMy cheap shared hosting provider has 99.98% this month, and they give you a free month if it goes below 99.8%, which has only happened once in two years. Somehow Heroku doesn't seem that great to me.
- pxlpshr 14y agoCmon. Your cheap shared hosting doesn't compare when it comes to scale and features.
- icebraining 14y agoYes, but it doesn't compare when it comes to price either, considering a single Dyno costs $36/month when I'm paying $44/year for the whole plan. (And that comes with excellent support - for example, I asked if they were planning to offer Python and they said "Sure, just gives us a couple of days to set up a machine with Python for you", even when I was only interested in the cheapest plan). I know they don't serve the same market, but I find it strange that a service that costs an order of magnitude more doesn't have a better uptime than cheap shared hosting.
- davidandgoliath 14y agoPrimarily because in order for amazon to pull a profit, they're not stuffing these systems in high-quality datacenters ;)
- chrisconley 14y agoGoing on last week's outage of 2 hours and last night's of 8 hours, that puts June's uptime at ~98.6%.
- acdha 14y agoOnly if you count small outages which affected a fraction of the customers as affecting the entire service. I had 100% uptime during that period using only the multi-AZ redundancy.
- michaelfairley 14y agoEBS is a deep, dark black magic that time has shown doesn't actually work.
- moe 14y agoI'm not a big EC2 fan but there is not much "black" about network volumes. Also a few hundred thousand customers seem to disagree with the "doesn't work" part.
- polemic 14y agoWe've distributed our machines between availability zones. We lost a machine with the latest outage. Application impact to our users? None. No point bemoaning a lack of decoupling, if you don't actually use it.
- rplnt 14y agoIt's not like Amazon haven't had multizone outages though.
- timaelliott 14y agoCloud is an excellent solution. The issues is companies not taking advantage of multiple availability zones.
- pardner 14y agoI'm pretty sure nothing qualifies as "always the best" solution. "The cloud" can be an imperfect solution yet still be the best solution for certain apps.
- garethadams 14y ago"proof" - I do not think that word means, what you think it means.