Entries tagged "outage"

Amazon S3 Outages

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 9:54 AM Comments (1)

I, like a lot of others, make use of the Amazon S3 service for data storage "in the cloud". The service is a huge success and normally behaves extremely stable.

Yesterday there was a very large S3 outage which caused many online companies to suffer outages as well. There was an interesting piece over at ReadWriteWeb asking "How Much Is To Much?".

I've been using S3 for nearly 2 years and have only experienced trouble twice. I wrote about the previous experience and that outage lasted about 3 hours. Yesterday however the outage was more than 6 hours!

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Dealing With Business Emergencies

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 1:04 PM Comments (0)

Fun morning for me today. I use Amazon S3 service for storage of various files, including the static media for most of my websites. This morning there was a major outage across the AWS farm. After noticing the errors I began to scramble to figure out what was going on. Obviously the issue was on the remote side (Amazon) so I had to sit and wait it out.

The outage seemed to last about 3 hours (for me, others are still reporting issues.) While S3 is an awesome service and very affordable, this shows that nothing is fail proof. Even ...

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