{"id":245,"date":"2011-04-30T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2011-04-30T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:00:47","slug":"amazons-cloud-service-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/amazons-cloud-service-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Cloud service failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A client of ours wants to host their video subscription site on Amazon&#8217;s cloud services.\u00a0 Last week they had an outage. Egads, this was not to supposed to happen.\u00a0 A point of view by Scott Gilbertson:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon Autopsy Reveals Causes of Cloud Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon is also promising to improve its communication with customers when things go wrong, but as we pointed out earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/2011\/04\/lessons-from-a-cloud-failure-its-not-amazon-its-you\/\">the real problem is not necessarily Amazon<\/a>.  While Amazon\u2019s services unquestionably failed, those sites that had a  true distributed system in place (e.g. Netflix, SmugMug, SimpleGeo) were  not affected.<\/p>\n<p>In the end it depends how you were using EC2. If you were simply  using it as a scalable web hosting service, your site went down. If you  were using EC2 as a platform to build your own cloud architecture, then  your services did not go down. The later is a very complex thing to do,  and it\u2019s telling that the sites that survived unaffected were all large  companies with entire engineering teams dedicated to creating reliable  EC2-based systems.<\/p>\n<p>That may be the real lesson of Amazon\u2019s failure \u2014 EC2 is no substitute for quality engineers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon has offered its promised apology. It&#8217;s published its  <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/message\/65648\/\">post-mortem on the recent outage<\/a> of its AWS EC2 (Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud) and RDS  (Relational Database Service). It says what went wrong   and how it&#8217;s planning to avoid such problems in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A client of ours wants to host their video subscription site on Amazon&#8217;s cloud services.\u00a0 Last week they had an outage. Egads, this was not to supposed to happen.\u00a0 A point of view by Scott Gilbertson: Amazon Autopsy Reveals Causes of Cloud Death Amazon is also promising to improve its communication with customers when things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/amazons-cloud-service-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon&#8217;s Cloud service failure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-technology","category-webhosting","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-3X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}