I'm much more unnerved by the term 'blast radius'

Cal

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: March 2, 2017 3:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

OMG.

 

“we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement 
subsystem in our larger regions for many years.”

 

That sentence scares me. But perhaps it shouldn’t.

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 3:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

 

So the facts are out. Short version, basically someone fat fingered a command 
and deleted a bunch of really important servers.

 

 

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Melvin Backus
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

 

That’s probably what caused the problem to being with. All that conversion and 
somebody missed a decimal point.

 

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         those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of David McSpadden
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:17 AM
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

 

I believe it was an US-Converted-Metric S-ton IMHO.

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Richard Stovall
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

 

Is that a metric S-ton, or the other kind?

 

The is a difference.

 

On Mar 2, 2017 2:38 AM, "Don Ely" <[email protected]> wrote:

        It is pretty trivial if you're setup correctly, but the setup takes an 
S-Ton of work and testing...

         

        On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> 
wrote:

                I have to say, what surprised me most about this outage was the 
lack of failover to alternate datacenters for some pretty big names.

                 

                I have no idea how this works in AWS, but in Azure it’s fairly 
trivial; I would expect the same of AWS.

                 

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker
                Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 12:22 PM

                
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If not S3, then what?

 

You're always going to be relying on someone else's something.


Some data center provider (okay, so you might run your own)

Some power provider

Some Internet provider

 

It's not like they have internet outages every week, and it's not like various 
organizations relying upon them haven't had outages for their own reasons.

 

Technology breaks, which is why we RAID, cluster, backup, failover and farm our 
systems, devices and data centers.

 

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                On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 8:37 AM, J- P [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>  wrote:

                
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/the-day-amazon-s3-storage-stood-still/

                 

                Would / should you hold your IT vendor responsible for relying 
on S3?

                 

                 

                 
                Jean-Paul Natola
                 

                 

                
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Indeed.

 

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                On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 3:56 PM, David McSpadden [email protected] 
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                So the normal question 'is the Internet down?' Is valid today?
                
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Indeed.

 

It's like someone broke the whole Internet.   Or, at least, 80% of it.

 

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                        On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 2:13 PM, Kennedy, Jim 
[email protected] wrote:

                        Learning very quickly how many vendors we have that are 
using AWS.  Lots is the first word that comes to mind.

                         

                        From: [email protected] 
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<mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan
                        Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 1:57 PM
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                        Subject: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage

                         

                        Any of your organizations being affected by this? The 
few services we have moved there so far are down.

                        
http://bgr.com/2017/02/28/internet-outage-amazon-web-services/

                         

                         

                        Charlie Sullivan

                        Sr. Windows Systems Administrator

                        Boston College

                        197 Foster St. Room 367

                        Brighton, MA 02135

                         

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