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Amazon claims[1] the problem was isolated to a single AZ. Yet it took down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb and more. Simple question: Are none of these major apps prop
by abalone 13y ago
Amazon claims[1] the problem was isolated to a single AZ. Yet it took down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb and more.
Simple question: Are none of these major apps properly architected to failover to other AZs, or is Amazon lying?
[1] http://status.aws.amazon.com http://status.aws.amazon.com
- mblakele 13y agoWell, I spent the afternoon performance-testing EBS-backed instances in us-west-2. Performance was no worse than usual. So I credit the idea that the problems were limited to us-east-1, and the companies mentioned should do more work on cross-AZ resiliency.
- xxpor 13y agous-east-1 is a region, which has multiple Availability Zones.
- fizx 13y agoWe run many (hundreds) of instances in most/all AZs, and this appeared to be about 30 minutes of flakiness in EBS instances created during 2012 (roughly) in only one us-east-1 AZ (Amazon randomizes the names, so my us-east-1e is different than yours). Data point in favor of Amazon.