-appengine] Massive EC2 outage
In the event of a primary data center outage, we would failover to a
secondary data center. If you are using High Replication datastore, you
should not experience any downtime while this happens. In addition, any data
that are successfully committed will have been
In the event of a primary data center outage, we would failover to a
secondary data center. If you are using High Replication datastore, you
should not experience any downtime while this happens. In addition, any data
that are successfully committed will have been guaranteed to have been
written.
It's less about the data-center going down, but more about App design
and distributing it across regions. All the apps that relied on their
PaaS vendors that only provisioned in the us-east-1 region are all
hurting right now (including us). If only PaaS offerings enabled
regional affinity along wit
Hopefully they can get everything sorted out soon.
Depends on your app, but having a bit of downtime sprinkled across the
year in small doses is probably easier to handle than a massive outage
that shuts down a site for a day.
Any chance a Googler could comment about how well distributed and
inde
FWIW, here's DotCloud's take on the outage which is still affecting them:
http://blog.dotcloud.com/working-around-the-ec2-outage
saidimu
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, saidimu apale wrote:
> >
> > It sure helps that you have a batph
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, saidimu apale wrote:
>
> It sure helps that you have a batphone to the GAE datastore team. Or is that
> a different Jeff Schnitzer?
Don't interpret that too literally. A couple of the Google developers
have been receptive to some api changes that would make Objec
> I've been there and I'm happy to leave this job to the professionals.
It sure helps that you have a batphone to the GAE datastore team. Or is that
a different Jeff Schnitzer?
saidimu
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> Easy to say, not so easy to do :-)
>
> All that fra
Not easy, sure, though EC2 has plenty of support for different availability
zones (as does RDS) so it's not impossible (though you pay normal bandwidth
charges between availability zones, as opposed to getting it for free).
So I guess it boils down to figuring out how much outages cost you. In the
Easy to say, not so easy to do :-)
All that frantic running-around-in-panic that GAE engineers and ops
people do when something goes wonky inside the datastore? That would
be you right now, trying to figure out how to failover your database
(and any other persistent data) to a different datacente
While it's certainly unfortunate for companies that have bet on EC2, they'd
be smarter to distribute their servers a bit so that a single data center
outage does not take out their entire company.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but
I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but for all those folks
doubting the viability of appengine for reliability reasons:
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-goes-down-taking-with-it-reddit-foursquare-and-quora/
Amazon's North Virginia datacenter tripped and fell over in the early
AM
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