Re:A Closer Look At The Christmas Eve Outage
by ChuckMcM on Monday December 31, 2012 @06:11PM
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Chaos Monkey fights back :-) I wonder if there is a way for the CM team to do ELB outages. At some point you entertain the idea that Amazon goes offline but probabilistically is that similar to a 9.0 magnitude quake and a 30M tsunami on the same day?
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Re:A Closer Look At The Christmas Eve Outage
by lucian303 on Monday December 31, 2012 @06:42PM
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Correct. Probabilistically, I'd say it's the same as long as that earthquake is under the ocean. Yeah you'll get 30M tsunami with a 9.0mag earthquake (most likely, I'm no geologist).
So yeah, AWS going down should be something _every_ company that runs its services on AWS including providers like Heroku should take into account as far as their architecture goes. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. You _will_ have downtime.
Period.