Re:Launch HN: Arpio (YC W21) – Protect your business from AW...
by treis on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:05PM
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How do you ensure that your services will be up in the event of an AWS outage?
Re:Launch HN: Arpio (YC W21) – Protect your business from AW...
by doug_neumann on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:20PM
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Our service runs multi-region active across 3 regions. We can survive a 2 region outage and still operate successfully.
We do everything we can to snapshot servers in quick succession (as much as we can with AWS), but they won't be fully consistent across nodes. We've found, though, that clustered systems like this have built-in capabilities to deal with these inconsistencies. It's kinda similar to if you lost power to all 3 systems and then brought them back up - they might not all be at the exact same point in time, and the application would need to sort that out.
If you'll tell me what application this is (is it a database platform?) I can do some quick research for you.