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Subject: FYI Netflix is down
From: drais at icantclick.org (david raistrick)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:20:24 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, James Downs wrote:

>> back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests.  Netflix uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant they were unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem.
>
> Someone needs to define back-plane/control-plane in this case. (and what 
> wasn't working)

Amazon resources are controlled (from a consumer viewpoint) by API - that 
API is also used by amazon's internal toolkits that support ELB (and 
RDS..).   Those (http accessed) API interfaces were unavailable for a good 
portion of the outages.

I know nothing of the netflix side of it - but that's what -we- saw. (and 
that caused all us-east RDS instances in every AZ to appear offline..)

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