Second time this month
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
I got into Git without a problem
Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down.... Is that a kamalism?
And the stupid U.S. DOD and intel agencies are parking all kinds of security data in the Amazon cloud.
Perhaps Amazon is way behind in Christmas deliveries and this is an excuse. Has anybody looked into this possibility?
Let it crash. Let it all crash.
Is this twice now? In two months?
5.56mm
The incident is the third major service issue this month for AWS, with the two earlier incidents resulting in even more severe and widespread outages.
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All the eggs in one basket with many companies relying on AWS as their underlying framework.
These AWS outages never seem to affect my Amazon purchases or Prime video stuff...
Per https://status.aws.amazon.com/ it was a single datacenter ("Availability Zone") in a single region.
My cable internet connection has been glitchy for a couple of weeks. Sometimes it is offline for a few moments and other times for several minutes.
Usually, when this happens, the cable co is messing with it, but the glitches have been interfering with random webpages/sites.
These outages are useful in that like a stress test, they identify weaknesses that will be addressed. People can bitch and moan all they want, but AWS ain’t going away, businesses and government aren’t going to stop using it, and like the power grid, highways, or any other form of infrastructure, the only way to get high reliability is by identifying bottlenecks and failure points and making them stronger.
That explains it. Just tried to order Kindle books.
So IMHO, any business having issues due to the outage of a single AZ are not following AWS well documented practices.
I have numerous issues with the politics of AWS' leadership, but based on my experiences they are second to none in the cloud in terms of services and technology.
AWS has quietly become Amazon’s big moneymaker. If this continues, and customers leave for Microsoft or Cisco, profits will suffer and their 3k stock price could drop big time.
Again? Well, I don’t want to hear about any power issues. Anyone familiar with data centers knows damn well that there’s redundant power and generator backups to make sure that there’s no downtime. In fact, my company measures downtime and as long as we don’t mess with our SLA of 99.999% uptime then everyone is happy.
I would have to think that Amazon has already shredded their service level agreements and probably owe customers refunds as a result. Something strange is going on with AWS and if I had to guess I would say that it is hackers targeting them which is the last thing they want to admit to.
Coincidentally, they are customer of mine and have quite a presence in my Colo space. It’s not uncommon for big companies to utilize other companies data centers where they can rent space and manage their equipment off site while not having to pay for infrastructure costs. In addition, the interconnection piece connecting them to a plethora of carriers is very convenient.
We’ve never had an issue with them and perhaps if they utilized other companies more then they wouldn’t have so many crashes.
Another reminder to people who don’t listen that ‘the cloud’ is just someone else’s data center.