DISQUS

How To Split An Atom: Update: Amazon Outtage

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sbspalding · 1 year ago
    Chishiki wrote - This has happened before...

    http://tinyurl.com/6xmedd
  • 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).
  • Burak · 1 year ago
    wooov enteresting