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Update: Amazon Outtage

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

The news is still sporadic, but according to Amazon technical support, earlier today they made an upgrade to the website and they are currently investigating whether that is the cause of the service loss. The outage that we have been experiencing not only took down Amazon’s main site but it also affected CDNow and many [...]




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  • Graeme Williams

    1 year ago

    When Ma Bell owned the whole US telephone network, the reliability of dial tone (that is, picking up the telephone and hearing a dial tone) was one minute down per year. I worked for a company that sold equipment that achieved around twenty minutes down per year, on average. We had a Japanese customer that bought an extra system so that there would be no downtime during planned upgrades.

    Fifteen minutes a month is miserable. It's bush league.
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    Well put!

    I guess in a world where software products measure their downtime in hours instead of seconds we forget what solid engineering can accomplish.
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    Chishiki wrote - This has happened before...

    http://tinyurl.com/6xmedd
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    The difference was that was a S3 issue (arguably worse since it took down a bunch of external applications that rely on Amazon for data services).
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  • Burak

    1 year ago

    wooov enteresting
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