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From: "Mike" <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
On 04/29/2011 12:35 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
*http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/*<http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/>
So, in a nut shell, Amazon had a single point of failure which touched off this entire incident.
I am still waiting for proof that single points of failure can realistically be completely eliminated from any moderately complicated network environment / application. So far, I think murphy is still winning on this one.
Well, in fairness to Amazon, let's ask this: did the failure occur *behind a component interface they advertise as Reliable*? Either way, was it possible for a single customer to avoid that possible failure, and at what cost in expansion of scope and money? Cheers, -- jra