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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 regi
by 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 agoNot true, link where they state they're immune to failures.
- justinsb 14y agoPlainly 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.