hexix

I'm seeing a lot of these type of comment. The thing is, AWS completely crapped out. Don't believe their status updates that make it sound like it was a tiny little area of their data center. It was pretty much the entire zone and then whenever there is an outage affecting an entire zone it brings down global services and even other zones as well.

We had servers in the bad zone and started having load issues. When I went to use the cool cloud features that are made for this, the entire thing completely fell on its face. I couldn't launch new EC2 servers either because the API was so bogged down, or the new zone I was launching in was restricted because of load.

Basically, the thing that nobody keeps in mind when they think it's so cool that you can spin up servers to work around outages is that EVERYONE IS DOING THAT. This is Amazon's entire selling point and when it comes to doing it, it doesn't work!

We were lucky to get some new servers launched before the API pretty much completely went down. They started giving everyone errors saying request limit exceeded. The forums were full of people asking about it.

ELB, Elastic IP, and other services not associated with a single availability zone completely failed. I keep seeing comments saying that if people designed their stuff right, they wouldn't have an issue. That's just completely bull, AWS has serious design flaws and they show up at every outage. It's NOT just people relying on a single zone.

Can someone please explain daring fireball to me? Every single post appears to be about how great Apple is. That can't seriously be the blog, can it? Why would people read this?

Correct me if I'm wrong but those revenue numbers wouldn't account for other products driving their ad revenue. Gmail probably isbresponsible for ablot of ad revenue but would be be considered as not moving the needle.

I think the ad revenue is so high because it's the end goal of nearly every "fun" product.

I've never heard that before. I think Google gets the money. Verizon probably gets a cut just for the carrier billing option when used.

I just did a search and couldn't find anything saying Verizon gets the money for android app payments.

Also I can't think of a single Google Android app that has been discontinued and replaced with a web version. I think you're getting confused about google also offering mobile web versions for platforms they can't get their apps on. They've even said they'd like to offer a better maps app for iPhone but can't.