At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com. We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many [...]

This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to [...]

This morning I came across an AP article on Yahoo news calling out Amazon’s ‘cloud computing’ initiatives. The all-too-clever title “Amazon’s Hot New Item: its data center” caught my attention and I wanted to see the folks at AP take a crack at the topic. The article seemed innocent enough until I ran into this [...]