Amazons move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in big Ohio warehouse, internal report says
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The outage underscores the challenge Amazon faces as it looks to move completely off Oracles database by 2020 , and how difficult it is to re-create that level of reliability.The report shows that Amazon struggled to identify the root cause of the Prime Day issue because of a feature it lost after the database was moved over.It also failed to come up with a contingency plan in case of an error in its newly installed database, called Aurora PostgreSQL, the documents show.On Prime Day, an excessive number of savepoints was created, and Amazons Aurora software wasnt able to handle the pressure, slowing down the overall database performance, the report said.Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos speaks during the opening ceremony of the media companys new location.
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