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0 pointsschappim5y ago0 comments

Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

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lpmitchell5y ago· 5 in thread

The m.media-amazon.com domain (and a few other CDN'd domains that they use) are running through Fastly:

    nslookup m.media-amazon.com
    
    Name:  media.amazon.map.fastly.net

It is very interesting that they are not using CloudFront!

cowsandmilk5y ago

really, m.media-amazon.com seems to have a very short TTL (showing 37 seconds right now) and has been weighted to cloudfront now.

Amazon is also known to use Akamai. Sure, Amazon relies heavily on AWS, but why should it surprise anyone that a retail website obsessed with instant loading of pages decides to use non-AWS CDNs if the performance is better.

Even if CloudFront became the default, I'm certain amazon.com would keep contracts with fastly and akamai just so they can weight traffic away from CloudFront in an outage.

jamespo5y ago

Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.

longwave5y ago

They already have:

  $ host m.media-amazon.com
  m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com.
  c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84

(which is a Cloudfront IP)

xmdx5y ago

Yep they did exactly this and are now running on cloudfront

tester345y ago

Why?

threeseed5y ago· 2 in thread

AWS is reporting no issues across the regions:

https://status.aws.amazon.com

speedgoose5y ago

AWS is almost never reporting issues on this page.

object_Object5y ago

AWS don't report outages until it's undoubtedly them.

adzicg5y ago

looks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 (https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...) so it's not an AWS thing

alex_duf5y ago

Fastly deploy their own hardware, (That's one of their selling points) I don't think they rely much on AWS, maybe just for network interconnection?

lordpankake5y ago

Fastly doesn't run on AWS.

apexalpha5y ago

It sure looks like a AWS error, even Amazon.com is mostly down.

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