Starting early this morning, Amazon Web Services experienced several service problems at one of its east coast datacenters. The outage impacted major sites across the Internet. The number of high profile sites affected by the issue shows both the amazing success of cloud services in enabling the current Internet ecosystem, and also the importance of solid distributed architectural design when building cloud services.
Twilio’s APIs and service were not affected by the AWS issues today. As we’ve grown and scaled Twilio on Amazon Web Services, we’ve followed a set of architectural design principles to minimize the impact of occasional, but inevitable issues in underlying infrastructure.
via Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues. Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.