Comments on: Scale Fail: Amazon and Pizza Team Engineering http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/scale-fail/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/scale-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-17391 Stephen E. Arnold Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:13:16 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=1007#comment-17391 Dare, thanks for writing. Microsoft has a keen interest in Amazon. However, this outage is not the first. I recall the Xbox meltdown and several others. Somehow the AWS is attracting a great deal of attention. Perhaps the engineering is great for the SLA but not so great for those who expect the 100% uptime Microsoft delivers for certain services by scale up and out plus redundancy. Amazon can't afford this type of solution, so the "pizza" issue looms large. Stephen Arnold, July 21, 2008 Dare, thanks for writing. Microsoft has a keen interest in Amazon. However, this outage is not the first. I recall the Xbox meltdown and several others. Somehow the AWS is attracting a great deal of attention. Perhaps the engineering is great for the SLA but not so great for those who expect the 100% uptime Microsoft delivers for certain services by scale up and out plus redundancy. Amazon can’t afford this type of solution, so the “pizza” issue looms large.

Stephen Arnold, July 21, 2008

]]> By: Dare Obasanjo http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/scale-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-17379 Dare Obasanjo Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:11:35 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=1007#comment-17379 Wow. A single S3 outage that doesn't even contradict the 99.9% uptime claims in their SLA is now grounds for Google to outsource their infrastructure to Google? Really? Which Google service will they host this on? Google App Engine which can barely handle basic mashups and has worse uptime than Amazon's EC2 and S3 services? Or is there some top secret hosting for Tier 1 sites service that Google has that you are privy to that hasn't been shipped? Wow. A single S3 outage that doesn’t even contradict the 99.9% uptime claims in their SLA is now grounds for Google to outsource their infrastructure to Google? Really? Which Google service will they host this on? Google App Engine which can barely handle basic mashups and has worse uptime than Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services? Or is there some top secret hosting for Tier 1 sites service that Google has that you are privy to that hasn’t been shipped?

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