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In March 2015, Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

The practice of keeping your infrastructure online by doing a switch over to another region is a complex one, but S3 is a relatively small and simple component. Netflix has a great article on their experience with Chaos Gorilla.

This also applies to service degradation, like increased latency. Not just when a service you depend upon is completely offline. Netflix has an article on this as well: Chaos Engineering Upgraded.

In March 2015, Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

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The practice of keeping your infrastructure online by doing a switch over to another region is a complex one, but S3 is a relatively small and simple component. Netflix has a great article on their experience with Chaos Gorilla.

This also applies to service degradation, like increased latency. Not just when a service you depend upon is completely offline. Netflix has an article on this as well: Chaos Engineering Upgraded.

In March 2015 Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

^{Source: Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3}

The practice of keeping your infrastructure online by doing a switch over to antoher region is a complex one, but S3 is a relatively small and simple component. Netflix have a great article on their experience with Chaos Gorilla.

This also applies to service degradation, like increased latency. Not just when a service you depend upon is completely offline. Netflix have an article on this as well - http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html

In March 2015, Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

The practice of keeping your infrastructure online by doing a switch over to another region is a complex one, but S3 is a relatively small and simple component. Netflix has a great article on their experience with Chaos Gorilla.

This also applies to service degradation, like increased latency. Not just when a service you depend upon is completely offline. Netflix has an article on this as well: Chaos Engineering Upgraded.

In March 2015 Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

Announcement - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-region-replication-for-amazon-s3/

In March 2015 Amazon AWS announced they support S3 replication across regions. When a certain region in S3 goes offline, you can serve files from your mirror in another region.

^{Source: Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3}

The practice of keeping your infrastructure online by doing a switch over to antoher region is a complex one, but S3 is a relatively small and simple component. Netflix have a great article on their experience with Chaos Gorilla.

This also applies to service degradation, like increased latency. Not just when a service you depend upon is completely offline. Netflix have an article on this as well - http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html