Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
by scott_s on Friday April 29, 2011 @02:18PM
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I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions from the grandparent post. It's not These guys are the best, so we will just have to live with these failures. It's These guys are smart people sailing in uncharted waters, so they're going to get a little lost now and then. The second conclusion implies that these waters will eventually become charted, so everyone will be able to avoid these problems in the future.
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Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
by fauigerzigerk on Friday April 29, 2011 @02:36PM
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To me, the parent as well as your comment sounds a little bit too apologetic. The waters are not totally uncharted and the outage was disproportionate. AWS isn't a research project, it's a commercial offering, so they have to take some blame. That re-mirroring storm was not completely unforeseeable. It's exactly the thing you have to consider when designing these kinds of systems.