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AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

By Sadagopan on May 1, 2011

Reddit, Foursquare, EngineYard and Quora were among the many sites that went down recently due to a rather prolonged outage of Amazon’s cloud services. On Thursday April 21, When Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) went offline, it took many of its Web and database servers depending on that storage down. With Amazon working aggressively to […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, aws, aws outage, business models, cloud computing | 1 Response

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 26, 2011

The AWS outage from last week brought the idea of “design for failure” into focus in many of the discussions around the cloud world. Looking back at the outage, it is pretty clear that only those apps that were designed for failure withstood the outage and the rest, especially the ones without even a DR […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, aws outage, best practices, cloud computing, design for failure, DR, insights, redundancy

Plane Simple

Plane Simple

By Christian Reilly on April 26, 2011

It’s amazing, though not in the least bit surprising, that the recent AWS outage has generated such widespread attention, with a plethora of blog posts from customers to industry experts taking up pixel space across all corners of the globe. I think it’s fairly obvious to all that since the event, everything that needs to […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aviation, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, cloud failure, Design, Netflix, outage

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 22, 2011

Yesterday’s AWS outage has been buzzing around the tech blogosphere even after 24+ hours. As usual naysayers of cloud are up in the arms trying not to miss the golden opportunity to create FUD and competitors to Amazon are tapping into their misery to push their services. Well, people are tuned to accept this as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, disaster recovery, DR, federated clouds, iaas, insights, outage | 13 Responses

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