Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails (bloomberg.com)

rastos1 writes: Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company called a "network issue." Major carriers including British Airways, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas Airways were among those reportedly impacted by the outage. Singapore's Changi airport said via Twitter that a technical issue affecting some operators was delaying the check-in process, with boarding passes having to be issued manually. "Amadeus confirms that, during the morning, we experienced a network issue that caused disruption to some of our systems," the Madrid-based company said in a statement. Technical teams took immediate action to identify the cause of the issue and services are "gradually being restored," it said.

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Re:Would cloud hosting have prevented the /. outag

[knightghost]

AWS has had plenty of outages.

Personally I don't think there is any such thing as "technical issue". There are resourcing, risk management, and personnel management issues. I've built systems with the right teams before that could stand anything short of a nuke, and we came in under budget. Honesty and the right people give you results.

Re: Would cloud hosting have prevented the /. outa

[Ogive17]

I've built databases that work flawlessly for a year and stop working when I'm on vacation without explanation. Shit happens sometimes.