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At the risk of being down voted, let me say that this is yet another AWS "feature" that is primarily a workaround for deficiencies in the platform.
by bkeroack 12y ago
At the risk of being down voted, let me say that this is yet another AWS "feature" that is primarily a workaround for deficiencies in the platform.
- waitwaitwhay 12y agoCan you explain that for me? I use Microsoft Azure a lot and there things like this just happen automatically. No configurations, alarms, etc.
- regularfry 12y agoIf by "the platform" you mean "available computing hardware", then yes. I'm not sure that's a useful data point.
- bkeroack 12y agoIn the narrowest sense your sentence is correct. Perhaps you mean that you think this can be expected on any computing hardware, which is far from correct. If all you've ever used has been public cloud services you can be forgiven for having this misconception.
- regularfry 12y ago"Available" meaning "reasonable to expect to support a userbase the size of EC2's with." If you start with "gotta run standardish x86_64 Red Hat or Ubuntu by the million or so" and work outwards from there, you're not really in a space where bulletproof hardware looks tempting. VCPU lock-stepping might, though.