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Re: FYI Netflix is down
From: Bryan Horstmann-Allen <bdha () mirrorshades net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:45:11 -0400
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2012-06-30 16:08:40, Rayson Ho wrote: | | If I recall correctly, availability zone (AZ) mappings are specific to | an AWS account, and in fact there is no way to know if you are running | in the same AZ as another AWS account: | | http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_can_I_make_sure_that_I_am_in_the_same_Availability_Zone_as_another_developer | | Also, AWS Elastic Load Balancer (and/or CloudWatch) should be able to | detect that some instances are not reachable, and thus can start new | instances and remap DNS entries automatically: | http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/ | | This time only 1 AZ is affected by the power outage, so sites with | fault tolerance built into their AWS infrastructure should be able to | handle the issues relatively easily. Explain Netflix and Heroku last night. Both of whom architect across multiple AZs and have for many years. The API and EBS across the region were also affected. ELB was _also_ affected across the region, and many customers continue to report problems with it. We were told in May of last year after the last massive full-region EBS outage that the "control planes" for the API and related services were being decoupled so issues in a single AZ would not affect all. Seems to not be the case. Just because they offer these features that should help with resiliency doesn't actually mean they _work_ under duress. -- bdha cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.
Current thread:
- FYI Netflix is down Joe Blanchard (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Jason Baugher (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- RE: FYI Netflix is down James Laszko (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Ian Wilson (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Rayson Ho (Jun 30)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Bryan Horstmann-Allen (Jun 30)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Mike Devlin (Jun 30)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Bryan Horstmann-Allen (Jun 30)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Mike Devlin (Jun 30)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Jason Baugher (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Jason Baugher (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Mike Lyon (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Derek Ivey (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Seth Mattinen (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Grant Ridder (Jun 29)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Justin M. Streiner (Jun 29)