Acceptable Downtime: A Relic of a Bygone Era?
Today, every business always needs to be up and running.
Last Christmas Eve, many Netflix users planned to bundle up with their loved ones and watch a bunch of streaming movies. Unfortunately, plans went awry.
Like millions of companies, Netflix depends upon Amazon for key pieces of its infrastructure. Specifically, Hasting's streaming service runs on Amazon Web Services. Because of an AWS service outage, presumably millions of Netflix customers couldn't dial up their favorite movies and TV shows. (Some people actually had to talk to each other during the holidays. Perish the thought!) Kidding aside, the incident demonstrated a number of things and this post looks at them.
Lessons from the AWS Outage
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