AWS Outage Caused by Latent Race Condition in the Dynamodb DNS Management System
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AWS experienced an outage due to a latent race condition in DynamoDB's DNS management system, highlighting the complexity of distributed systems.
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joshuanapoli
2 months ago
See discussion on AWS's report here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677139
panny
2 months ago
Notice how they never explain how the problem was called "fully mitigated" early in the day, only to persist for many hours afterward. Ass kissing made it all the way out to corporate press release and into a forbes article before it became apparent that, no, it is not mitigated, at all.
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