For those of us waiting to learn what happened, the title is baity and misleading. A more accurate headline would be: "Rightscale outage: some speculation and customer service suggestions for Amazon".
At the time of writing Amazon has not yet posted a root cause analysis. I will update this section when they do. Until then, I have to make some educated guesses.
That pretty much sums it up. Well, that plus some contradictory lesson learned, such as The biggest problem was that more than one availability zone was affected, followed by, must have live replication across multiple availability zones.
At the time of writing Amazon has not yet posted a root cause analysis. I will update this section when they do. Until then, I have to make some educated guesses.
That pretty much sums it up. Well, that plus some contradictory lesson learned, such as The biggest problem was that more than one availability zone was affected, followed by, must have live replication across multiple availability zones.