AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services

Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by airza on Sunday September 20, 2015 @08:51AM (#10247330)

well, time to find out who has failure tolerance built in to the architecture 8^)

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Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by drendorx39 on Sunday September 20, 2015 @09:09AM (#10247369)

failure tolerance is an alien technology for amazon...

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Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by divideby0 on Sunday September 20, 2015 @09:23AM (#10247407)

that's completely untrue. there are many ways to do fault-tolerance in AWS. it's expensive, but it's possible. netflix even goes as far as simulating the failure of entire aws regions in their simian army testing suite:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

That's why Netflix stays up when us-east or us-west are down.

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Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by kordless on Sunday September 20, 2015 @12:39PM (#10248109)

It is true. Amazon offloads a decent amount of fault tolerance to the application provider, as you point out here. I will also mention that Netflix does not solely rely on Amazon for running their services. They run their own decentralized caching layer: https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/

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Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by beagledude on Sunday September 20, 2015 @10:37AM (#10247649)

Netflix is down.

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Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several s... by veverkap on Sunday September 20, 2015 @10:58AM (#10247730)

Works fine for me

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