Second Amazon Outage in Northern VA
Yesterday some of Amazon’s data centers in Northern Virginia went down, impacting just a few sites. Within several hours, AWS reported interruptions to it Elastic Beanstock services, Management Console for Elastic Beanstock Services, Relational Database Service, ElasticCache, Elastic Compute Cloud, and CloudSearch. The outage impacted Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest, Flipboard, and according to Outage Analyzer up to 71 sites were affected.
Last July, a nine-minute power outage impacted the AWS data center in Northern Virginia, interrupting coverage for Twitter, Netflix, Pinterest, and other sites (see The Cloud is Not Risk Free). This second outage within three months serves as a reminder for businesses who use cloud services to have redundancy strategies in place. Throughout the outage crisis, Amazon reminded customers that companies who planned their system architecture based on AWS’s recommendations to spread workloads across multiple availability zones should have been safeguarded.
Yesterday is yet another reminder of why redundancy planning is essential even when utilizing the cloud. Applications in the cloud must be developed to utilize available redundancy infrastructure whether via AWS or other cloud services.
2012-10-24 00:41:48
Source: http://blog.integracon.com/2012/10/23/second-amazon-outage-in-northern-va/
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