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This is worse than the 8-hr outage of S3 sometime ago... most apps could still respond without S3 static assets. If your entire app is hosted on AppEngine, you'

• slig 17y ago
  > This is worse than the 8-hr outage of S3 sometime ago I don't think so. Javascript files hosted os s3 would hang the page loading and without css/images the app would be useless too.
  • peter123 17y ago
    But you could quickly recover by hosting those JS files yourself and relinking them. If your app is coupled tightly with AppEngine APIs, then there is nowhere else you can host your app.
    • tlrobinson 17y ago
      Theoretically you could fire up AppScale on EC2: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ http://code.google.com/p/appscale/
      • drusenko 17y ago
        What about your data? Most web applications have persistent data of some sort that is vital to the user experience -- without it, you don't have much of a site. [Edit: And keeping a hot copy of that data is a lot harder than it sounds]
        • danw 17y ago
          GAE still had read-only access to data so it would be possible to backup and move elsewhere
• sschueller 17y ago
  At least we got a detailed explanation from AWS as to what happened and what was put in place to prevent it from happening again.