 MxxCon
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Brooklyn, NY | reply to b10010011
Re: Another example why "The Cloud" is a bad idea. said by b10010011:Even worse a local accounting firm that fell hook line and sinker for cloud services was crippled for three days when Amazon's cloud went down.
They learned their lesson the hard way and have since abandoned all could based services.
"Amazon's cloud went down" is an ignorant and blatant lie.
Amazon Web Services has more than 30 different and separate services. I can guarantee on the life of your children and parents that the whole Amazon "cloud" DID NOT go down.
Amazon Web Services provides all the tools necessary to create a highly available, redundant and secure infrastructure that can continue to function if there's an outage in a specific datacenter, availability zone, geographic region or a continent.
If somebody is using AWS and they experienced an outage, it's their own damm fault for not following best-practices in creating a reliable and redundant setup.
If some idiot jumped from a plane with a single parachute, no backup and died, do you blame the whole skydiving industry for the actions of that idiot even though everybody told him to pack a backup?
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kudos:19 | Re: Another example why "The Cloud" is a bad idea. MxxCon  , I am in full agreement that the likelihood of a highly diversified cloud service (like AWS) going completely offline -- that is to say, EVERY geographic region going down -- is pretty unlikely.
However, there have been a few documented cases of entire AWS geographic regions going down:
* 2012/03/15 -- EC2 east region -- reference
* 2012/03/26 -- Amazon EC2 -- reference
I haven't seen anything on the outages mailing list (I'm subscribed) about AWS issues since then. I'd have to check NANOG as well to see if there were reports there too.
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If you were one of those Amazon customer's in the unfortunate geographic region who couldn't access any of your data, from your propective, "The Amazon Cloud was down." |
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MxxCon
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Brooklyn, NY | reply to koitsu
Yes, a region can go down, but again, AWS offers people all the tools necessary to create an infra that can survive a region failure. If they did not implement and such an outage was unacceptable to them, its their own fault.
And I doubt that "a local accounting firm" would be using a bare-bones EC2 anyway. It would be either S3 or some seller.
If it's a seller that had 3 day long outage, then again, don't blame Amazon or "cloud" for actions of one incompetent company!
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said by MxxCon:"Amazon's cloud went down" is an ignorant and blatant lie.
 Whatever...
The cloud service they were purchasing from Amazon was unavailable for three days.
Call it what you will but from this businesses perspective Amazon's cloud was down.
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MxxCon
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said by AnonMe :If you were one of those Amazon customer's in the unfortunate geographic region who couldn't access any of your data, from your propective, "The Amazon Cloud was down."
Actually, I was one of those customers that got affected by east coast outage. We were not down because we had infra setup on the west coast and in Singapore. And "amazon cloud" was not down. Only a specific service was, EC2 and EBS.
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Any engineer worth his salt who is hosting with AWS would set up redundancy in two, very geographically redundant, regions.
The fact several high profile sites didn't and went down along with a single AWS region just proves they should invest more money into infrastructure talent.
There is nothing wrong with "the cloud" as long as your provider is half-way competent.
Disclaimer: I am a SaaS cloud engineer. We don't host with AWS and we have geographic redundancy via BGP. |
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