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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#541

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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.

Looks like the dashboard is fixed https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836662601090134017

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#542

Sysadmin: 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…

Hurry, look now, so you can tell your grandchildren!!!

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?

#543

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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

London Daily Express [1], CBS[2] now reporting the outage.

[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?

#544

Earlier 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.

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#545

Sysadmin: 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…

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#546

Sysadmin: 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…

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#547

Sysadmin: 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…

Any is always the manager that is the bad guy in these scenarios? Haven't we grown up yet?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#550

Sysadmin: 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

Due to HN's flaky Cloudflare 503 Bad Gateway error, I noticed that Cloudflare is also being affected by S3 being down in a similar but subtle way. See their status page's broken logo on the upper left hand corner.[1] It was actually directly linking to a S3 URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/statuspage-production/pages-transac...

[1]: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

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