on 10-Jul-2012 08:02
Last week power generators failed causing an outage to Amazon web services including Netflix and Instagram. The outage went on trip a bug in Amazon’s own load balancing systems that would normally allow work load to be distributed across different zones and maintain uptime. In this case the capacity distribution failed. This doesn’t appear to be something that Amazon could have predicted, but as we know, prevention is better than cure.
Here are four best practices you can implement when it comes to mitigating risk for cloud and minimising disruption.