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Think that netflix is down too. so much for chaos monkey?

blantonl 14y ago
Yup, I can confirm from here in Montana that both Netflix and Herkou are down. However, I have 20 instances on us-east. And haven't seen any problems, even during yesterday's outage on AWS. Edit: that doesn't mean this isn't an AWS outage.... It almost certainly is.
- sofuture 14y ago
  Yeah, my ~20 instances are okay. I think we had a hiccup with our (multi-az, whooo!) RDS though.
zenogais 14y ago
Confirmed in California as well.
undergroundhero 14y ago
Confirmed in Missouri.
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jaequery 14y ago
i think netflix ceo just signed up for a rackspace account
- justinsb 14y ago
  You're joking, but I bet Netflix's Asgard system gets support for OpenStack pretty quickly now...
  - sp332 14y ago
    Netflix has confirmed that they would like the option to migrate to from Amazon. https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222294/Netflix_opens_door_to_leaving_Amazon_Web_Services https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222294/Netflix_open...
    - justinsb 14y ago
      Interesting link - thanks. I think Netflix are expecting another cloud to offer the same model and API as Amazon though, which isn't likely to happen - everyone else is learning from AWS's mistakes! Even if it did, many of the features they're waiting for (like auto-scaling groups) probably wouldn't be as useful in a multi-cloud environment, and would therefore have to be built into Asgard.
- superuser2 14y ago
  Rackspace got hit by a truck last year and went down for a while too. Not cloud != perfectly reliable.
  - davidandgoliath 14y ago
    Slightly different scenario however: the power was shut off by the fire marshall if I recollect correctly. Rackspace (and many, many other co's) tend to have functional UPS units & generators. Amazon tends to choose the cheapest datacenter facility imaginable and then these sort of failures occur. Given their size they'll inevitably fix the power issues though -- they've got the finances & they're capable to add a few levels of redundancy.
    - superuser2 14y ago
      I found the reports about the outage - it was 2007 (so obviously much more than a year ago) but very similar to one of Amazon's recent outages - the truck took out a transformer, Rackspace fired up backup power, but cooling failed to start so Rackspace had to shut it all down to avoid melting everything. Looks like Amazon wasn't the only one with inadequate testing of their continuity plan. And I don't think Rackspace offered alternate Availability Zones at that point.
theoutlander 14y ago
No wonder my wife was just asking me why Netflix is down on Xbox live here in Seattle.

Yup, I can confirm from here in Montana that both Netflix and Herkou are down. However, I have 20 instances on us-east. And haven't seen any problems, even during yesterday's outage on AWS. Edit: that doesn't mean this isn't an AWS outage.... It almost certainly is.

sofuture 14y ago
Yeah, my ~20 instances are okay. I think we had a hiccup with our (multi-az, whooo!) RDS though.

zenogais 14y ago

Confirmed in California as well.

undergroundhero 14y ago

Confirmed in Missouri.

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jaequery 14y ago

i think netflix ceo just signed up for a rackspace account

justinsb 14y ago
You're joking, but I bet Netflix's Asgard system gets support for OpenStack pretty quickly now...
- sp332 14y ago
  Netflix has confirmed that they would like the option to migrate to from Amazon. https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222294/Netflix_opens_door_to_leaving_Amazon_Web_Services https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222294/Netflix_open...
  - justinsb 14y ago
    Interesting link - thanks. I think Netflix are expecting another cloud to offer the same model and API as Amazon though, which isn't likely to happen - everyone else is learning from AWS's mistakes! Even if it did, many of the features they're waiting for (like auto-scaling groups) probably wouldn't be as useful in a multi-cloud environment, and would therefore have to be built into Asgard.
superuser2 14y ago
Rackspace got hit by a truck last year and went down for a while too. Not cloud != perfectly reliable.
- davidandgoliath 14y ago
  Slightly different scenario however: the power was shut off by the fire marshall if I recollect correctly. Rackspace (and many, many other co's) tend to have functional UPS units & generators. Amazon tends to choose the cheapest datacenter facility imaginable and then these sort of failures occur. Given their size they'll inevitably fix the power issues though -- they've got the finances & they're capable to add a few levels of redundancy.
  - superuser2 14y ago
    I found the reports about the outage - it was 2007 (so obviously much more than a year ago) but very similar to one of Amazon's recent outages - the truck took out a transformer, Rackspace fired up backup power, but cooling failed to start so Rackspace had to shut it all down to avoid melting everything. Looks like Amazon wasn't the only one with inadequate testing of their continuity plan. And I don't think Rackspace offered alternate Availability Zones at that point.

theoutlander 14y ago

No wonder my wife was just asking me why Netflix is down on Xbox live here in Seattle.