Downtime incidents occur frequently, and the sequelae of "opening apes to reduce expenditures" are surging.
Server outages of major manufacturers are actually nothing new. Silicon Valley, the most developed Internet industry, also HE Tuber has a lot of dark history. For example, the Google server outage in December 2020 paralyzed a series of applications such as YouTube and Gmail, affecting the United States and the entire Europe; the AWS outage at the end of 2019 lasted for more than 6 hours, causing hundreds of companies and tens of millions of users to suffer. It’s unspeakable that Amazon’s top executives have to publicly apologize.
The recent outages have received extra attention for two main reasons.
First, the frequency of downtime is too high and the scope of impact is larger than before.
The Didi outage late at night on the 27th made countless users and drivers crazy. Crazy examples that make people collapse include but are not limited to: trying to request a ride for half an hour but still no driver has picked up the order, the driver looking down and finding that the order assigned by the system is hundreds of kilometers away from the passenger, discovering that the system is abnormal and trying to cancel the order but still can't…
Of course, some drivers also encountered an "unexpected surprise":
they woke up after a night's rest and found that the income in their account exceeded 60 billion... You know, Cheng Wei's total personal wealth when Didi went public was only 29 billion.
If Didi’s outage remains popular because online ride-hailing is very close to people’s lives and is used frequently, then the impact of the large-scale Alibaba Cloud outage on November 12 is even worse. Already: Alibaba’s Alipay, Taobao, DingTalk, and Alibaba Cloud Disk are indispensable applications for mobile payment, online shopping, online office, and cloud storage scenarios respectively.
When these applications are all paralyzed, people’s work, life, and Shopping may have to be paused.
What is even more worrying is that on November 27, Alibaba Cloud's cloud database console in some regions experienced access anomalies again, only half a month after the large-scale outage on the 12th. Two outages occurred in a short period of time, which is a serious problem for the entire cloud computing industry.
