Amazon's backup systems don't seem to have worked and many people said the automated fail over to other data centers didn't work either. Then it was also supposed to be a short outage but turned into a very long one that corrupted EBS volumes. It took hours to recover databases and file systems. A power outage of this type should have been a non-event. A data center near me lost power and went to generators and didn't have any issues at all. I'm wondering if they grew the data center larger than their backup systems could handle.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Steel City Phantom <scpha...@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't know if its still relevant, but MAE East is located in Tysons > corner virginia. MAE East at one point routed over 50% of US internet > traffic and routed over 80% of over-seas traffic over the Global Crossing > fiber optic lines running to Europe. You take out that building, and yea, > you have major outages. > > but again, this was 10 years ago, i don't know if its still accurate today. > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Rakesh <rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm sure you've all heard about the outage over the last few days at >> Amazon, specifically their Virginia-East-1 availability zone. >> >> What I'm struggling to find out is why is caused such massive outages to >> Netflix and Heroku. >> >> I'm making an assumption that both Heroku and Netflix weren't incompetent >> to just use one zone. >> >> Anyone able to shed light on this? >> >> Rakesh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > You want it fast, cheap, or right. Pick two!! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.com www.lakotaeastbands.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
