On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Scott Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Daniel Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As I understand it, the underlying infrastructure is AWS ... so ... massive >> availability is already provided. It would be one of the most difficult >> systems in the world to bring down with an uncoordinated DDOS. > > AWS doesn't make things scale with magic pixie scaling dust. You still have > to set things up specifically for auto-scaling to happen; I would wager that > the majority of sites / web-services on AWS *do not* do that.
As evidenced by entire companies going down when AWS has problems in a single region, or even a single availability zone. Architecting for the cloud means doing more than forklifting an existing app. - M
