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that's completely untrue. there are many ways to do fault-tolerance in AWS. it's expensive, but it's possible. netflix even goes as far as simulating the failur
by divideby0 11y ago
that's completely untrue. there are many ways to do fault-tolerance in AWS. it's expensive, but it's possible. netflix even goes as far as simulating the failure of entire aws regions in their simian army testing suite:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html
That's why Netflix stays up when us-east or us-west are down.
- beagledude 11y agoNetflix is down.
- veverkap 11y agoWorks fine for me
- kordless 11y agoIt is true. Amazon offloads a decent amount of fault tolerance to the application provider, as you point out here. I will also mention that Netflix does not solely rely on Amazon for running their services. They run their own decentralized caching layer: https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/