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Re: Update: Amazon Outtage

Burak — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:41:25 -0000

wooov enteresting

Re: Update: Amazon Outtage

sbspalding — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:47:29 -0000

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).

Re: Update: Amazon Outtage

sbspalding — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:46:41 -0000

Chishiki wrote - This has happened before...

http://tinyurl.com/6xmedd

Re: Update: Amazon Outtage

sbspalding — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:18:28 -0000

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.

Re: Update: Amazon Outtage

Graeme Williams — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:45:10 -0000

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.