What happens when a cloud service that is specific to one geographic region fails? An AWS glitch called a “service event” happened on Sunday, September 20, 2015, from 2:19 AM – 7:10 AM PDT. The primary issue was with DynamoDB. The root cause was a network outage that caused extra load on DynamoDB’s internal metadata service. […]
AWS provides two solutions for MySQL high availability, Mulit-AZ and Read Replicas. When combined, it is possible to implement synchronous replication within a region and asynchronous replication between regions using only AWS services. The two levels of protection ensure data is safe in the event of a single AZ or regional outage. It also helps […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a fairly public outage this past weekend, and much has been written about it. This event certainly impacted a lot of applications and the people who use and support them, but it got me thinking about how far we’ve come on availability as an industry over the past 20 years. When events like this […]