What an amazing learning event. You would think that dependency-related functions/warning would be inherent in such a complex system.
-- Espi On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: > 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:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Melvin Backus > *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:47 AM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *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. > > > > -- > There are 10 kinds of people in the world... > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *David McSpadden > *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:17 AM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage > > > > I believe it was an US-Converted-Metric S-ton IMHO. > > > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Richard > Stovall > *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:05 AM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *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" <don....@gmail.com> 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 <mich...@smithcons.com> > 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. > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2017 12:22 PM > > > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage > > > > 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. > > > > Regards, > > > > *ASB* > *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* > > *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* > > > > * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 > > > > > > Sent with Mixmax > <https://mixmax.com/s/WMB47Rd39yDNPFfWo?utm_source=mixmax&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=signature_link&utm_content=sent_with_mixmax> > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 8:37 AM, J- P jnat...@hotmail.com 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> > on behalf of Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2017 5:36 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage > > > > Indeed. > > > > Regards, > > > > *ASB* > > * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 > > > > > > Sent with Mixmax > <https://mixmax.com/s/WMB47Rd39yDNPFfWo?utm_source=mixmax&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=signature_link&utm_content=sent_with_mixmax> > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 3:56 PM, David McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: > > So the normal question 'is the Internet down?' Is valid today? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Notice: This email is from an outside source. Please do not open any > attachments, click on any hyperlinks, or respond without first confirming > the authenticity of the email. > > Indeed. > > > > It's like someone broke the whole Internet. Or, at least, 80% of it. > > > > Regards, > > > > *ASB* > *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* > > *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* > > > > * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 > > > > > > Sent with Mixmax > <https://mixmax.com/s/WMB47Rd39yDNPFfWo?utm_source=mixmax&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=signature_link&utm_content=sent_with_mixmax> > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 2:13 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org > wrote: > > Learning very quickly how many vendors we have that are using AWS. Lots > is the first word that comes to mind. > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Charles F > Sullivan > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2017 1:57 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] AWS East Outage > > > > Any of your organizations being affected by this? 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