Comments on: Amazon problems take down Reddit, other sites

By: robertovalerio

robertovalerio — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:40:21 +0000

@geckoboard is down as well. It does not affect our business but I am missing my management dashboards…!

By: iamondemand

iamondemand — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:14:39 +0000

I am using Quora on daily basis almost and as part of my role as the chief evangelist in Newvem.com I follow AWS cloud very closely over the last 3 years at least.

I had noticed one very interesting thing – in contrary to past AWS outages (I covered in my blog – http://www.iamondemand.com/post/5005375142/amazon-outage-is-it-a-story-of-a-conspiracy) >>>>

Quora didn’t go down in this one ..seems that someone there learned a lesson and changed the DR architecture to fit the principal of shared responsibility and the concept that the cloud will always fail .. >> you must be prepare for that – Learn more how – http://gigaom.com/cloud/amazon-outages-lessons-learned/

By: MisterArcher

MisterArcher — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:58:53 +0000

And it’s not just the US of A… I went to purchase a deal in panama, and even http://OfertaSimple.com was down too. Half the world is served through amazon.

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:07:08 +0000

It’s interesting that the US East data centre seems to suffer most from outages. It reminds me of the seemingly constant problems Rackspace had in their older Dallas FW data centre before they completed major upgrade works.

At least it encourages people to build redundancy across facilities and that “this cloud thing” isn’t the single answer to redundancy – you still have to architect your systems to handle failover and multiple levels!