Amazon services are experiencing a major interruption of service
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"Amazon-driven services hit by blackout"
Guess I won't know exactly when my Domino's driver will be arriving... time to eat my leg...
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The article says that this highlights the risks of centralizing services in this way... but doesn't explain HOW it hightlights that as nothing in the article suggests that centralizing in any way created any additional risk. Logically, it reduces risk. So no idea how it highlights it. It highlights that it does not completely eliminate the risk, but that's all.
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Centralizing stuff for a mostly single location company always makes me nervous because internet is just so unreliable. So you have to up your costs to have two separate internet connections, etc, etc to get that up time.
Now for services you're serving out to the masses - oh hell yeah hosted/colo in a good DC is the way to go!
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@Dashrender said in Amazon services are experiencing a major interruption of service:
Centralizing stuff for a mostly single location company always makes me nervous because internet is just so unreliable.
I think you are thinking of hosting, not centralizing. It would be centralizing that could protect you from outages in your case. Going to a colo would be decentralizing.
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OK help me understand my misunderstanding.
If you have everything in house now, and move it all to a Colo - wouldn't that still be centralized? I suppose reading what I wrote it could go either way.
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@Dashrender said in Amazon services are experiencing a major interruption of service:
OK help me understand my misunderstanding.
If you have everything in house now, and move it all to a Colo - wouldn't that still be centralized? I suppose reading what I wrote it could go either way.
The systems are still centralized while the users are accessing it from a remote place.
Decentralized would be multiple co-lo's housing your equipment I'd think.
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@Dashrender said in Amazon services are experiencing a major interruption of service:
OK help me understand my misunderstanding.
If you have everything in house now, and move it all to a Colo - wouldn't that still be centralized? I suppose reading what I wrote it could go either way.
No, that would be decentralizing. Instead of everything in one place (in house) you have split it into two places (users in house, systems remote.) You are removing some of the existing centralization.
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@DustinB3403 said in Amazon services are experiencing a major interruption of service:
Decentralized would be multiple co-lo's housing your equipment I'd think.
Mutiple locations, one way or another. NTG is fully decrentralized... users are not centralized and support systems are not centralized. We use multiple datacenters from multiple vendors. This has downsides too, of course.
