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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

These service health boards are more like advertisement page then actual status of the service.

I guess their bizarre thinking is something along the lines of: "unless we have proof that noone can access the service, we won't change the indicator from green to yellow. Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

> Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

I tried them all and Amazon is still the best.

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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…

> Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling anyone Fun story, when I was an intern at Amazon there was actually a warehouse fire. The result was a lot of manual database entry updating as products were determined to be destroyed or still fit for sale.

I'm curious about what happened to products that were no longer fit for sale, but still fit for use. Do you recall?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Not sure if its related or not (I'll just assume it is), but dockerhub is down as well. Haven't been able to push or pull for the last 15 minutes, some other folks complaining of the same thing.

Yea my self hosted concourse is down. Feels quite bizarre to have our internal CI so crippled by S3... though i'm still investigating, perhaps the workers are just hung after all of the failed docker pulls.

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I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, that's why for images I use imgur. They have a great API and it's 100% free. There is a handy ruby gem [1] which takes a user uploaded image and sticks it on imgur and returns its URL with dimensions etc. On top of that you don't have to pay for traffic to those assets. [1] https://github.com/soheil/imgur

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, that's why for images I use imgur. They have a great API and it's 100% free. There is a handy ruby gem [1] which takes a user uploaded image and sticks it on imgur and returns its URL with dimensions etc. On top of that you don't have to pay for traffic to those assets. [1] https://github.com/soheil/imgur

I admire your sword of sarcasm +1

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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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/

After more than an hour we are now at ~99.8%, so everybody affected should be able to claim a 10% discount, right?
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