[154261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Sat Jun 30 03:25:31 2012
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:24:49 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Tyler Haske <tyler.haske@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJEFqDeyaj9KZVNi0xA0+VHnh_BAzoJKZd_gs8b0Sxr9F9c=3g@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 6/30/12 12:11 AM, Tyler Haske wrote:
>> I am not a computer science guy but been around a long time. Data centers
>> and clouds are like software. Once they reach a certain size, its
>> impossible to keep the bugs out. You can test and test your heart out and
>> something will slip by. You can say the same thing about nuclear reactors,
>> Apollo moon missions, the NorthEast power grid, and most other technology
>> disasters.
> How to run a datacenter 101. Have more then one location, preferably
> far apart. It being Amazon I would expect more. :/
there are 7 regions in ec2 three in north america two in asia one in
europe and one in south america.
us east coast, the one currently being impacted is further subdivided
into 5 availability zones.
us east 1d appears to be the only one currently being impacted.
distributing your application is left as an exercise to the reader.
