[–] webology 14y ago ↗ Netflix runs on AWS which is down on the east coast - http://status.aws.amazon.com/. These two things are related.
[–] justinsb 14y ago ↗ When some AWS AZs went down last year, Netflix made a big deal of their distributed architecture and how that made them immune to failures of an entire AWS region. That now looks more like blind luck. [–] ckdarby 14y ago ↗ Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures. [–] justinsb 14y ago ↗ Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there.http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
[–] ckdarby 14y ago ↗ Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures. [–] justinsb 14y ago ↗ Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there.http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
[–] justinsb 14y ago ↗ Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there.http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
[–] wanghq 14y ago ↗ "Contrary to what you might have heard on Hacker News, Netflix is not down. They're beta testing Elastic Spot Uptime. Give it a try!" https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929 [–] justinsb 14y ago ↗ Love this Twitter account - hope it lasts!
[–] elq 14y ago ↗ http://movies.netflix.com/ or http://dvd.netflix.com/A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws?Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 38.2 ms ] threadhttp://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...
There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws?
Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/
When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.