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Re: FYI Netflix is down
From: david raistrick <drais () icantclick org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:20:24 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, James Downs wrote:
back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests. Netflix uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant they were unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem.Someone needs to define back-plane/control-plane in this case. (and what wasn't working)
Amazon resources are controlled (from a consumer viewpoint) by API - that API is also used by amazon's internal toolkits that support ELB (and RDS..). Those (http accessed) API interfaces were unavailable for a good portion of the outages.
I know nothing of the netflix side of it - but that's what -we- saw. (and that caused all us-east RDS instances in every AZ to appear offline..)
-- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais () icantclick org
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down Todd Underwood (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Leo Bicknell (Jul 02)
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down Leo Bicknell (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down david raistrick (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Leo Bicknell (Jul 02)
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down Tony McCrory (Jul 02)
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down david raistrick (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 02)
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- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 02)
- RE: FYI Netflix is down Dan Golding (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down James Downs (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Rodrick Brown (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down david raistrick (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Randy Bush (Jul 03)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Kyle Creyts (Jul 04)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Randy Bush (Jul 04)
- Re: FYI Netflix is down Todd Underwood (Jul 02)