{"id":749,"date":"2017-02-28T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:10:01","slug":"amazon-s3-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/amazon-s3-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon S3 Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is regarding\u00a0https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/28\/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps\/<\/p>\n<p>These type of occurrences are becoming more and more common. Tons of company has placed a ton of faith into the Amazon ecosystem, and time and time again, it looks like Amazon has let them down. When these things broke, it broke at a MASSIVE scale (AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb in MEGA data collapse, https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/09\/20\/aws_database_outage\/ )<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/research.omicsgroup.org\/index.php\/Amazon_Web_Services<\/p>\n<p>There were other outages in 2012, 2013, and probably more unlisted. I think it&#8217;s an interesting challenge that Amazon is tackling, and I feel like more and more of the web is putting all of their eggs into one giant basket.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, if we were to build a truly scalable, and unlikely to be impacted system, maybe it might make sense to diversify the system&#8217;s infrastructure to utilize multiple services. Maybe some redundancy at the DNS layer, then some more at the LB, some more at how things are replicated, localized and so on&#8230; Just something to reflect on due today&#8217;s outage, &#8220;How can I prevent my organization from being impacted by this?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is regarding\u00a0https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/28\/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps\/ These type of occurrences are becoming more and more common. Tons of company has placed a ton of faith into the Amazon ecosystem, and time and time again, it looks like Amazon has let them down. When these things broke, it broke at a MASSIVE scale (AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/amazon-s3-outage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon S3 Outage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}