[154282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Devlin)
Sat Jun 30 16:56:30 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120630204511.GA14160@lab.pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:55:53 -0400
From: Mike Devlin <mdevlin@aisle10.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen <
bdha@mirrorshades.net> wrote:
> Explain Netflix and Heroku last night. Both of whom architect across
> multiple
> AZs and have for many years.
>
> The API and EBS across the region were also affected. ELB was _also_
> affected
> across the region, and many customers continue to report problems with it.
>
> We were told in May of last year after the last massive full-region EBS
> outage
> that the "control planes" for the API and related services were being
> decoupled
> so issues in a single AZ would not affect all. Seems to not be the case.
>
> Just because they offer these features that should help with resiliency
> doesn't
> actually mean they _work_ under duress.
> --
>
But in netflix case, if they architected their environment the way they
said they did, why wouldnt they just fail over to us-west? especially at
their scale, I wouldn't expect them to be dependent on any AWS function in
any region.
Mike
