Bigger embarrassment?

[icecream-guy]

I don't know which was a bigger embarrassment so far this week.

Trump/Putin Summit?
Amazon Crash Day?

[dlots]

Haven't been keeping up on the US/Russian summit.  It's to hard to get around the Trump hate to see if he actally did something wrong.  Personally I am a big fan of keeping relations with Russia good.

[deanwebb]

Big online sale events, I *expect* those to swamp the servers and tank them.

President of the USA - and this is what I saw myself in his press conferences - talking tougher to allied heads of state than hostile heads of state - big disappointment.

Good relations with Russia are good, but only if relations with allies are *better*.

[icecream-guy]

Big online sale events, I *expect* those to swamp the servers and tank them.

being that amazon is BIIIG,   you think they have the infrastructure in place to handle, or at least set the stuff up in AWS so they could spin up instances as the load increases. (probably not in their budget, that AWS can get pricey)

[deanwebb]

being that amazon is BIIIG,   you think they have the infrastructure in place to handle, or at least set the stuff up in AWS so they could spin up instances as the load increases. (probably not in their budget, that AWS can get pricey)

It's all in the charge-backs, baby! 

[dlots]

At this point Trump could solve world hunger and bring world peace and democrats would complain about lost defense company contracts, and hurting the American farmer.  The whole "Russia is interfearing in our elections by informing the voters that ploiticans are evil scumbags" thing never upset me.

I don't like him at all, I didn't vote for him, and I won't vote for him in the futurel, but at this point it's to hard to tell the smoke people are trying to blow up my butt from the smoke from the fire.

[deanwebb]

Getting back to the networking side of the issue, I can say that the stuff coming into - or attempting to come into - our businesses and government agencies from Russia and China is truly horrendous. The cyberthreat is very real, and Trump's backpedaling and prevaricating about it is totally at odds with the realities I see in the networks.

When you find the IP addresses from Russia downloading files from the server farm and are locked out of a string of routers and switches between that server and an insecure Internet access point, there's no room to think that maybe these are guys we want to work together with. That particular relationship with Russia needs to be blocked, cleaned out, and referred to the US Secret Service.

[Dieselboy]

Big online sale events, I *expect* those to swamp the servers and tank them.

Traditionally yes, but these days with auto-scaling and cloud services this is not a problem for properly architected systems. For a random google-search company this could be excusable, may be they just didnt make full use of the cloud tech. But for AWS whom actually lead the way in public cloud, it's not really excusable and is a bit of an oxymoron  / facepalm lol

[icecream-guy]

Big online sale events, I *expect* those to swamp the servers and tank them.

Traditionally yes, but these days with auto-scaling and cloud services this is not a problem for properly architected systems. For a random google-search company this could be excusable, may be they just didnt make full use of the cloud tech. But for AWS whom actually lead the way in public cloud, it's not really excusable and is a bit of an oxymoron  / facepalm lol

from a CNBC News story

The e-commerce giant also had to add servers manually to meet the traffic demand, indicating its auto-scaling feature may have failed to work properly leading up to the crash, according to external experts who reviewed the documents. "Currently out of capacity for scaling," one of the updates said about the status of Amazon's servers, roughly an hour after Prime Day's launch. "Looking at scavenging hardware."

ref
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-what-caused-prime-day-crash-company-scramble.html

[deanwebb]

Or, in other words... Don't trust the hype that the cloud will always scale up. Processing and storage are cheap and plentiful, but not infinite.

[Dieselboy]