AWS RDS Postmortem: Is AWS Collapsing Under its Own Weight ?
Hi everyone, I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to AWS, and we had an incident. This made me think that maybe AWS is starting not to be good any more. I would like to share the postmortem report with the community, and please comment on what you think. I would like to know if we made a fundamental mistake or if AWS is actually degrading. Times are UTC. Personal opinions are removed from the report, just facts are stated. ---------- POSTMORTEM REPORT The project consists on moving several services to AWS. The system consists Services in 1 autoscaling group, and a PostgreSQL Database in RDS. - Sunday 4.30 am: we migrate the PostgreSQL database to RDS. RDS is configured with 200 GB in the disk, the database size is 15 GB. - Sunday 10.17 am: RDS detects that we ar
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Hi everyone, I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to AWS, and we had an incident. This made me think that maybe AWS is starting not to be good any more.
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- ruben81adelaide
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews