Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
by kaashif on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:13AM
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> In this case, the game isn't "going down less than Amazon", it's about going down uncorrelated to Amazon.
It's possible to go down in a mostly uncorrelated way to Amazon by just being down all the time.
Obviously this is implicit in your comment, but I'll say it anyway: your backups need to actually work when you need them. You need to test them (really test them) to make sure they're not secretly non-functional in some subtle way when Amazon is really down.
It's possible to go down in a mostly uncorrelated way to Amazon by just being down all the time.
Obviously this is implicit in your comment, but I'll say it anyway: your backups need to actually work when you need them. You need to test them (really test them) to make sure they're not secretly non-functional in some subtle way when Amazon is really down.