are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be
maybe just the image icon? idk...
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#562Amazon outage just reported on NBC News.[1] AMZN stock down $3.45 (0.41%). [1] http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Amazon...
> AMZN stock down
YES! Buy on rumor, sell on fact as the saying goes.
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#563Earlier 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
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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#564what'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…
"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard." Yep.
I love it, like that fixes the problem!
..now fix the REAL problem
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#565It's fixed... I mean the status page
https://status.aws.amazon.com/
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#566From Amazon: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656 The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates. So it's not just a joke... S3 being down actually breaks its own status page!
For this kind of page it might be best for them to use a data URI image to remove as many external resources as possible.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#567Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/
EDIT: Misread parent.
Because your status page shouldn't depend on your own infrastructure. Literally the problem Amazon is having right now.
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#568Mass 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…
Worth a look tbh.
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#569Now might be a good time to ponder a lasting solution. Clearly, we cannot trust AWS, or any other single provider, to stay up. What is the shortest, quickest to implement, path to actual high availability? You would have to host your own software which can also fail, but then at least you could do something about it. For example, you could avoid changing things during critical times of your own business (e.g. a trade…
I use a master and four mirror slaves. Then use round robin for reads. I used to have three slaves, but when two of them was down at the same time I got nervous and set up one more.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#570It'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.
AWS - too big to fail.