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Re: FYI Netflix is down
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, david raistrick wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, James Downs wrote:back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests. Netflix uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant they were unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem.Someone needs to define back-plane/control-plane in this case. (and what wasn't working)Amazon resources are controlled (from a consumer viewpoint) by API - that API is also used by amazon's internal toolkits that support ELB (and RDS..). Those (http accessed) API interfaces were unavailable for a good portion of the outages.
It seems like if you're going to outsource your mission critical infrastructure to "cloud" you should probably pick at least 2 unrelated cloud providers and if at all possible, not outsource the systems that balance/direct traffic...and if you're really serious about it, have at least two of these setup at different facilities such that if the primary goes offline, the secondary takes over. If a cloud provider fails, you redirect to another.
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down Rodrick Brown (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 02)
- RE: FYI Netflix is down Dan Golding (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Rodrick Brown (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down david raistrick (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Randy Bush (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Kyle Creyts (Jul 04)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Randy Bush (Jul 04)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down George Herbert (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Jon Lewis (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down AP NANOG (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Joly MacFie (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down AP NANOG (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jul 02)
- RE: FYI Netflix is down Dan Golding (Jul 02)
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