Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
by darkwater on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:58AM
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> AWS regularly performs routine hardware, power, and network maintenance with minimal disruption across all EC2 instance types. To achieve this we employ a combination of tools and methods across the entire AWS Global infrastructure, such as redundant and concurrently maintainable systems, as well as live system updates and migration.
And yet, I keep getting almost every weeks emails like this:
"EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance (instance-ID: i-xxxxxxx) associated with your AWS account (AWS Account ID: NNNNN) in the eu-west-1 region. Due to this degradation your instance could already be unreachable. We will stop your instance after 2022-09-21 16:00:00 UTC"
And we don't have tens of thousands of VMs in that region, just around 1k.
From the FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/
Q: How does EC2 perform maintenance?
AWS regularly performs routine hardware, power, and network maintenance with minimal disruption across all EC2 instance types. To achieve this we employ a combination of tools and methods across the entire AWS Global infrastructure, such as redundant and concurrently maintainable systems, as well as live system updates and migration.