Virtual Block Storage Crashed Your Cloud Again :(
You know it's bad when you start writing an incident report with the words "The first 12 hours." You know you need a stiff drink, possibly a career change, when you follow that up with phrases like "this was going to be a lengthy outage...", "the next 48 hours...", and "as much as 3 days".
That's what happened to huge companies like NetFlix, Heroku, Reddit,Hootsuite, Foursquare, Quora, and Imgur the week of April 21, 2011. Amazon AWS went down for over 80 hours, leaving them and others up a creek without a paddle. The root cause of this cloud-tastrify echoed loud and clear. Heroku said: