30 Jun
2012
30 Jun
'12
8:13 p.m.
The interesting thing to me is the us population by time zone. If amazon has 70% of servers in the eastern time zone it makes some sense. Mountain + pacific is smaller than central, which is a bit more than half eastern. These stats are older but a good rough gauge: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714986 Jared Mauch On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
On 6/30/12 12:04 PM, Todd Underwood wrote:
This was not a cascading failure. It was a simple power outage
Cascading failures involve interdependencies among components.
I guess I'm assuming there were UPS and generator systems involved (and failing) with powering the critical load, but I suppose it could all be direct to utility power.
~Seth