I never understood why so many devs flocked to AWS. I actually find their abstraction of services gets in the way and slows down my dev instead of making it easier like so many devs claim it does. I prefer Linode.
Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#492Can anyone comment on mitigating issues like this with S3 Cross-region replication? I'm reading up on it now while one of my services is dead in the water.
The only appropriate comment is that this issue is affecting all of our buckets, both in us-west and us-east. Replicating to another region would yield no useful benefits in this specific failure scenario.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#493what'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…
@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#494New update:
"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue."
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#495are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#496what'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…
What we need are status pages that are driven by votes from verified customers, which could also serve to inform the provider about issues. This would address issues that are only visible from the outside.
And system monitoring which isn't dependent on itself. Kind of a "duh" kind of thing...
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#497It's interesting to note the cascading effects. For example, I was immediately hit by three problems: * Slack file sharing no longer works, hangs forever (no way to hide the permanently rolling progress bar except quitting) * Github.com file uploads (e.g. dropping files into a Github issue) don't work. * Imgur.com is completely down . * Docker Hub seems to be unavailable. Can't pull/push images.
A doctor's office that's unable to process patients due to the outage:
https://mobile.twitter.com/drjincali/status/8366578638879989...
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#498> Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue.
"Believe" is not inspiring.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#499A 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…
Reminds me of an old joke: Why do we host on AWS? Because if it goes down then our customers are so busy worried about themselves being down that they don't even notice that we're down!
Reminds me of an even older joke (from 80's or 90's):
Q: Why computers don't crash at the same time?
A: Because network connections are not fast enough.
(I think we are starting to get there)
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#500https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836630468778864640
At least now we can see all the network failures in full RGB.