Amazon Web Services had a really bad Sunday AM. Specifically, resources in my ‘hood were sucking wind…
Amongst the large number of websites and cloud services inaccessible this AM, was Google’s Nest. Despite being a Google company, and for quite some time, their infrastructure rides Amazon. Which I find deliciously ironic.
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That explains why Alexa in the Amazon Echo was complaining this morning that my internet connection was down, when it wasn't.
Yeah, tons of things were down... Netflix, Medium, couldn't buy postage thru my Amazon Seller account, etc. Some were partial outages depending upon where you live or which hosting environment whichever piece of the product relies on.
"Yeah, tons of things were down"
Given how damn much of the internet runs on AWS, one would assume that this is pretty rare, no? Otherwise, we'd be familiar with the previous stories, rather than being kinda surprised.
Even 99.9% uptime isn't 100%...
"Despite being a Google company, and for quite some time, their infrastructure rides Amazon. Which I find deliciously ironic."
Not really that ironic, to my way of thinking. As best as I understand, AWS is cheaper and more reliable than anyone else by a decent margin. So pretty much everyone uses it for rational reasons.
Hell, if Cupertino used it, they wouldn't have their regular downtime episodes, no?