Tag Archives: Outage
Lessons Learned from Recent Cloud Outages
Outages happen, and they happen everywhere. Whether you leverage a public cloud, a hosting provider, or your own data center, infrastructure downtime is inevitable. Equipment breaks or does not function as expected, software bugs slip by, natural disasters occur, and … Continue reading
AWS Outage Lessons Learned: If Netflix Can Suffer, So Can You
On Christmas Eve and continuing into Christmas Day, AWS had a “Service Event” centered on the ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service in the US-East region. Although only a small percentage of ELBs were functionally disabled and unable to route traffic … Continue reading
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Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing Best Practices, High Availability, Outage
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Top 9 Tips for Fine-Tuning Your Cloud Architecture in 2013
Before you congratulate yourself on crossing off those final to-dos for 2012, don’t forget this critical one: fine-tuning your applications and cloud architecture. And while it’s unlikely that you’ll accomplish this task by end of year, here are nine tips … Continue reading
AWS outage follow-up: if you wanted details, you got details!
A week after the April 21st 2011 outage AWS posted a detailed post mortem explanation of what happened. It’ll be interesting to see how everyone digests the very detailed account. Since AWS did not provide an executive summary I’ll try … Continue reading
Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned
Last Thursday’s Amazon EC2 outage was the worst in cloud computing’s history. It made the front page of many news pages, including the New York Times, probably because many people were shocked by how many web sites and services rely … Continue reading
