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People were joking about this but it turns out to be true: they host the status icons on their service: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
The icons aren't hosted there (or if they are, they are cached). https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif The status information is hosted there.
Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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#542Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason. Any…
Greenish ELB, RDS.
Yellow EC2, Lambda.
Red S3, Auto Scaling.
EDIT: A few dozen services in us-east-1 are down/degraded.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#543Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just reported on USA Today.[1] [1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-c...
Fox News now has the story.[1] [1] http://www.fox5ny.com/news/238689310-story
[1] http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/77332... [2] http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/02/28/amazon-web-service...
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
People were joking about this but it turns out to be true: they host the status icons on their service: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
The icons aren't hosted there (or if they are, they are cached). https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif The status information is hosted there.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#545Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason. Any…
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#546Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason. Any…
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#547Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason. Any…
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#548Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#549Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#550Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason. Any…
People were joking about this but it turns out to be true: they host the status icons on their service: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656