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Netflix is down

25 points by vnchr 14y ago

vnchr 14y ago
Confirmed at 9:00pm PST: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com
kirpekar 14y ago
Down in Roku too
- DiabloD3 14y ago
  I can confirm this.
webology 14y ago
Netflix runs on AWS which is down on the east coast - http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/. These two things are related.
justinsb 14y ago
When some AWS AZs went down last year, Netflix made a big deal of their distributed architecture and how that made them immune to failures of an entire AWS region. That now looks more like blind luck.
- ckdarby 14y ago
  Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures.
  - justinsb 14y ago
    Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there. http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-got-a-grip-on-awss-cloud-40095277/ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dynamodb-and.html http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn... There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
wanghq 14y ago
"Contrary to what you might have heard on Hacker News, Netflix is not down. They're beta testing Elastic Spot Uptime. Give it a try!" https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929 https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929
- justinsb 14y ago
  Love this Twitter account - hope it lasts!
elq 14y ago
http://movies.netflix.com/ http://movies.netflix.com/ or http://dvd.netflix.com/ http://dvd.netflix.com/ A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws? Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.
xyproto 14y ago
For me, it's down all the time due to my geographical location.

25 points by vnchr 14y ago

vnchr 14y ago

Confirmed at 9:00pm PST: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com

kirpekar 14y ago

Down in Roku too

DiabloD3 14y ago
I can confirm this.

webology 14y ago

Netflix runs on AWS which is down on the east coast - http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/. These two things are related.

justinsb 14y ago

When some AWS AZs went down last year, Netflix made a big deal of their distributed architecture and how that made them immune to failures of an entire AWS region. That now looks more like blind luck.

ckdarby 14y ago
Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures.
- justinsb 14y ago
  Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there. http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-got-a-grip-on-awss-cloud-40095277/ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dynamodb-and.html http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn... There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.

wanghq 14y ago

"Contrary to what you might have heard on Hacker News, Netflix is not down. They're beta testing Elastic Spot Uptime. Give it a try!" https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929 https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929

justinsb 14y ago
Love this Twitter account - hope it lasts!

elq 14y ago

http://movies.netflix.com/ http://movies.netflix.com/ or http://dvd.netflix.com/ http://dvd.netflix.com/ A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws? Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.

xyproto 14y ago

For me, it's down all the time due to my geographical location.