AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others

Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by dredmorbius on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:59PM (#4684828)

Even if your own infrastructure relies on bare-metal hosting, odds are very good that some external service is going to be based in at least part on AWS or a constituent service for any non-trivial service offering. Your objective of being completely fault-tolerant and independent of Amazon is going to be hard to attain.

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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by oinksoft on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:27PM (#4685010)

Fundamentally, Reddit is the exact same sort of website as Hacker News, but Hacker News seems to be operating fine. What are these unavoidable AWS-hosted services you're thinking of? I cannot think of any but I'm sure you know of several.

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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:23AM (#4686772)

If you're running RightScale, you're relying on AWS. Parts of New Relic. An Amazon affiliate service.

More generally, other tools such as a CDN, DNS, email delivery services, Facebook authentication, Twitter feeds, OpenStreetMap. Google APIs, mapping, Analytics, and others, all rely on some third-party infrastructure, if not AWS itself. I'm not saying that all sites rely on all of these, but many use one or more.

The Web is becoming increasing interconnected in ways that increase fragility.

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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by jacques_chester on Monday October 22, 2012 @10:04PM (#4686437)

HN doesn't serve billions of views.

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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by corford on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:12PM (#4684905)

Good point. In my case I think I'm in the clear. The only services I'll be outsourcing are DNS (via dyn.com), backup (via rsync.net) and CDN work via Rackspace. As far as I can tell, none of them have a connection to or rely on Amazon/AWS.

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