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The CEO of Mashery, Oren Michels, has a wonderfully detailed description of an Amazon EC2 outage.

Although the root cause of this particular issue was a resource contention issue between instances, things like that are going to continue to happen. There may now be a fix for this particular edge case, but there are undoubtedly others that will crop up over time.

The real failure here was a failure of monitoring, and a failure of transparency.

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Posted by Jack Dausman On 05/28/2008 |

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