1 May
2011
1 May
'11
5:22 p.m.
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 -0700 From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Amazon diagnosis
On 04/29/2011 12:35 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
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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.
this was a classical case of _O'Brien's_Law_ in action -- which states, rather pithily: "Murphy... was an OPTIMIST!!"