[140088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Amazon diagnosis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Sun May 1 14:08:48 2011
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 -0700
From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinsgstkBQS3vgVfTyLiBFH1te1i2A@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/29/2011 12:35 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> *http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/*<http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/>
>
> ___
So, in a nut shell, Amazon had a single point of failure which touched
off this entire incident.
I am still waiting for proof that single points of failure can
realistically be completely eliminated from any moderately complicated
network environment / application. So far, I think murphy is still
winning on this one.
Good job by the AWS team however, I am sure your new procedures and
processes will receive a shakeout again, and it will be interesting to
see how that goes. I bet there will be more to learn along this road for
us all.
Mike-
