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Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing green checkmarks across the board, but they just added a notice to the top of the page: > Increased Error Rates > We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region.

I guess sub-1% to 100% failure rate is technically an "increase".

I guess file uploads and downloads are technically "API calls".

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#156

A piece of hard-earned advice: us-east-1 is the worst place to set up AWS services. You're signing up for the oldest hardware and the most frequent outages. For legacy customers, it's hard to move regions, but in general, if you have the chance to choose a region other than us-east-1, do that. I had the chance to transition to us-west-2 about 18 months ago and in that time, there have been at least three us-east-1 ou…

I'm getting the same outage in us-west-2 right now.

I can confirm this as well.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#160

This seems like an appropriate time as any... Anyone want to list some competitors to S3? Bonus if it also provides a way to host a static website.

Backblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.

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