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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by thiht »

Taek wrote: post #217

Mass outage like this is exactly one of the things we are looking to avoid by building a decentralized storage grid with Sia. Sia are immune to situations like this because data is stored redundantly across dozens of servers around the world that are all running on different, unique configurations. Furthermore, there's no single central point of control on the Sia network. Sia is still under heavy development, but it…

>Not to push my own product

Why would you say that? That's exactly what you're doing...

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by Exuma »

Great, all my billing services on Heroku are turned off. Why do they need S3 access for me to access my web dynos?

I'd rather my app load but appear broken so I can show my own status rather than just shutting down every single app...

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by mxuribe »

mijustin wrote: post #202

Started a list of "things to do when S3 is down." https://justinjackson.ca/s3/ What else should I add?

Have a philosophical debate with yourself (just within your mind) as to whether all this interweb/webternet stuff is a worthwhile pursuit...knowing that it would not survive should a comet hit the earth again...or, maybe it will? ;-)

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by fletom »

artursapek wrote: post #238
fletom wrote: post #134

what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on their service page. they just now put up a box at the top saying "We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region." increased error rates? really? Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling an…

I don't think they intentionally kept the checkmarks there. They probably just didn't update it as quickly as developers made a post on Hacker News (not surprising, they were probably investigating).

when you start investigating an outage, that is exactly when you should change your checkmark to yellow if not red. if you're as big as AWS there should not be any more than a minute or two between when your service goes down and when you actually update your status page to show that.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by djhworld »

caravel wrote: post #223

But wait. Isn't S3 "the cloud". Everyone promised the cloud would never go down, ever. It has infinite uptime and reliability. Well good thing I have my backups on [some service that happens to also use S3 as a backend].

I know your comment is in jest, but Amazon do say their API SLA for S3 is 99.99% available [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by eknkc »

scarlac wrote: post #259
idlewords wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

While that may be true, that's not the reason you're seeing green. You should have been seeing a broken image or a status page not finishing loading if that was an issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
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