http://mashable.com/2011/04/21/amazon-aws-server-problems/
Can someone explain to me how you can screw up this badly? Most of these sites are still down a day later thanks to Amazon's failure, including my beloved ctrl+alt+del...
It looks like their North Virginia server is having quite the trouble...
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
That's what I was referring to. Maybe it's because I don't understand how this fundamentally works, but why is it they can't just flip a few switches and reset everything?
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DShiznit wrote:
That's what I was referring to. Maybe it's because I don't understand how this fundamentally works, but why is it they can't just flip a few switches and reset everything?
Sadly, no, because there are huge numbers of interconnected services that work together, and flipping the switches might end up taking down more than it helps. It shouldn't take over a day to fix, though; I'll be very interested to hear what the problem was.
*bump* Did anyone see what the final post-mortem on this was? That was a major, major outage, and it seems to have been not mentioned after the fact on the large tech sites for some reason.
I temporarily lost access to Assembla on (I think) Friday night due to the outage.
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