FYI Netflix is down

Sat Jun 30 20:55:53 UTC 2012

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen <
bdha at mirrorshades.net> wrote:

> Explain Netflix and Heroku last night. Both of whom architect across
> multiple
> AZs and have for many years.
>
> The API and EBS across the region were also affected. ELB was _also_
> affected
> across the region, and many customers continue to report problems with it.
>
> We were told in May of last year after the last massive full-region EBS
> outage
> that the "control planes" for the API and related services were being
> decoupled
> so issues in a single AZ would not affect all. Seems to not be the case.
>
> Just because they offer these features that should help with resiliency
> doesn't
> actually mean they _work_ under duress.
> --
>

But in netflix case, if they architected their environment the way they
said they did, why wouldnt they just fail over to us-west? especially at
their scale, I wouldn't expect them to be dependent on any AWS function in
any region.

Mike