Scalability, reliability and availability: Three things the AWS Summit for EMEA struggled to get right

Amazon Web Services' EMEA shindig is under way and, in a masterstroke of irony, viewers found the initial experience a little wobbly. Having sat through a keynote by AWS CTO Werner Vogels, who praised the wonder of his employer's cloud, attendees were about to get stuck into today's sessions. Some, however, encountered a …

[iron]

Dear Ben Chodor... bullshit.

I was unable to watch the keynote, could not get the Breakout Sessions index page to show up for the entire "conference" but did figure out how to join the sessions I wanted without it. Mostly. All those sessions had at least one pause of over 60 seconds leading to me refreshing the page. At the end of the conference I tried to watch a session from another track, the button said "Watch On Demand" but I was then told to wait 30 minutes?!? At that point I gave up and went back to work.

Compared to the performance of MS Build a few weeks ago you failed. You failed bad.

[Pascal Monett]

Don't sweat it, Bezos

After all, you have the comfort of remembering that we saw Bill Gates himself presenting Windows 98 to the world and got a magnificent BSOD right at the start.

[W.S.Gosset]

Re: Don't sweat it, Bezos

And Tesla's unbreakable window breaking.

And Jobs's Instant-Wake-From-Sleep freezing.

And...

[Chris G]

Hamster Jam

Rather than relying on hamsters that get tired, fall over and jam things up, might I suggest upscaling to larger wheels and using politicians with hats that dangle brown envelopes in front of them?

I think they would supply a surprising amount of energy as well as being a renewable resource, let's face face it, as soon as one drops out they are always replaced by another as nature abhors a vacuum.

AWS; All Wheels Silent?

[Sirius Lee]

The other perspective

Worked for me from 9am (BST) until 2pm. Watched all the sessions I wanted. The only frustration was that the first presenter ran significantly over and into the next session.