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"A problem with Amazon Web Services yesterday caused issues with services such as Disney+ and Venmo for most of the day. Robotic vacuum cleaners halted in their tracks <https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/major-outage-amazon-web-services/507-cb381148-3576-4976-8638-98ee86292fa6>. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press <https://apnews.com/> had trouble publishing the news." Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1979 active; 1979-1991, reserves; including two years with the Ohio Air National Guard) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 (z/OS Network Software Consultant) Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-t-regan On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:07 PM Bill Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > LOLOLOLOL, I love when the so called “experts” are proven wrong. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 4:04 PM, patrickfalcone7 < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hope you are well. FWIW I've seem mics for sometime but mostly under > favorable conditions. But lately have found mics on average from under 5 on > avg. mills.with somewhat newer array technology on < z15 CPCs.Sent from my > Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > -------- Original message --------From: Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> > Date: 12/8/21 9:05 AM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: > Re: AWS is down. On what machine do you complete I/O in a > microsecond?--Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metzhttp:// > mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3________________________________________From: IBM > Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bill > Johnson [[email protected]]Sent: Wednesday, > December 8, 2021 7:31 AMTo: [email protected]: Re: AWS is > down.I see someone who has never worked in health care where the mainframe > processes each drug prescribed and checks for drug interactions in a > microsecond. Yes, people die if the mainframe isn’t available. It’s also > why there are plenty of pharmacies open 24 hours and why hospitals have > pharmacies.Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhoneOn Wednesday, December 8, 2021, > 1:33 AM, kekronbekron <[email protected]> > wrote:Critical infra in some places, sure, not everyone is denying that.At > the moment of urgent need, do people really buy something and wait for MF > to finish processing, for them to be then allowed to continue > breathing?What happened to the interim stages (logstics etc).It sounds as > though failure to buy/order something immediately is going to lead to their > death... is what's being said.Sounds pretty privileged to me.It also sounds > like it's assumed that mainframes will last 500 years, no?Did the world not > exist before 1960s?Did people automatically die before 1960s because they > didn't have MF?Are people and organizations not allowed to be wrong (to > their own detriment), etc.Are we sure that 100% of all information out > there is truth, apart from this announcement that AWS wants to replace > MF?We can all like MF, but don't need to act like it's the sole saviour of > humanity.Again that means that all technology that evolved since then is a > complete waste of time and people's efforts.Sounds pretty delusional to > me... just to convey that MFs are good servers.- KB‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Bill Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote:> AWS had a larger > & longer outage today, than all the outages on the mainframes I’ve worked > on in the last 30 years. Much worse. Yet, some here think AWS is going to > replace the mainframe for critical applications like banking, health care, > big retail, and insurance. Plus, the mainframe has had plenty of negative > posts here in the decades I’ve been involved. Nobody dies when Netflix > isn’t available. (One of the hits from today) people can and do die if the > drugs they need aren’t available because the computer system is down.>> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone>> On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 11:01 PM, > kekronbekron [email protected] wrote:>> Not > at anybody in particular:>> Do we have to make snide remarks because > someone else had an outage?>> Don't we remember the times when things on > the mainframe itself went south?>> Has every site's MF env. been 100% > available through all these decades?>> Is it wrong to fail sometimes?>> Is > this the attitude with which you'd like to retire, holding onto precious > remarks and burning the path behind you as you leave?>> What does that say > about one's mentality and outlook in life?>> - KB>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original > Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐>> On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 3:54 AM, Ronald > Wells [email protected] wrote:>> > Pretty > pic/web pages make the $$ did you not get the memo> >> > -----Original > Message-----> >> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [email protected] On Behalf Of John McKown> >> > Sent: Tuesday, > December 7, 2021 2:57 PM> >> > To: [email protected]> >> > > Subject: Re: AWS is down.> >> > ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION **> >> > > Oh, but they advertise that they can replace mainframe. Well, maybe the > processing. But not the on site reliability. Of course, for WFH, the > internet is the week point. And, most likely, also the home equipment. I > just had to reboot my Windows PC at home because it decided to stop talking > to my internet router.> >> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:49 Bill Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote:> >> > > Amazon Web > Services is down. I can’t get to my pictures. Glad we don’t> > >> > > have > our mainframe running there.> > >> > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / > archive access instructions, send> > >> > > email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN> >> > For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN> >> > Email > Disclaimer> >> > This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to > the sender, which may be legally privileged information. 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