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The problem I have with the whole thing, is that if you look at their status page they still don't report they had any outage. The worst you will ever see is a
by nowarninglabel 14y ago
The problem I have with the whole thing, is that if you look at their status page they still don't report they had any outage. The worst you will ever see is a yellow triangle with a message of "connectivity issues". Amazon is pathologically obsessed with denying that any outages occur, which is understandable given their business model, but since they do actually have outages, it makes them look scummy.
- ibejoeb 14y agoI agree. I think there's a policy problem. If a problem is isolated to a single AZ, you should see a hazard triangle. If the region is affected, it needs to be classified as a service disruption. The whole problem with the AZ thing is that they're geographically congruent. Major weather events are pretty likely to mess you up. Remember the disk latency spikes from that little earthquake? It costs more, but that they operate properties all over the world, and that they're operable under a common paradigm (for most services), is the truly compelling feature of AWS. I keep my major operation on the east and fail over to the west if there's a significant event. It's a little more labor intensive, but it works.