It doesn't look that bad, think about it S3 is such a critical part of almost any web application, it is treated like a realtime micro-service. So looks like most of the Internet in the U.S. is affected but nevertheless no one is dead yet and the world has not ended. So even if hypothetically let's say China attacked us using cyber-warfare it wouldn't be so bad after all... This was kind of like a test.
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#622Is S3 down outside of Us-East too? I can't seem to create a bucket in US-West or EU
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#623Yup, same here. It has been a few minutes already. Wanna bet the green checkmark[1] will stay green until the incident is resolved? [1] https://status.aws.amazon.com/
In December 2015 I received an e-mail with the following subject line from AWS, around 4 am in the morning: "Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement" When I checked the logs it was clear the hardware failed 30 mins before they scheduled it for retirement. EC2 and root device data was gone. The e-mail also said "you may have already lost data". So I know that Amazon schedules servers for retirement after they alr…
That's completely ridiculous, get some fucking RAID Amazon.
I order drives off newegg directly to my DC and I'm yet to lose data with the cheapest drives available in RAID10.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#624Hate to ask, but does anybody now of an alternative storage solution? Also, anyone have any alternative to Heroku for now?
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#625Was just pentesting it, and have some minor result. If you are using S3 browser uploads, make sure parameters you supply to Presign do not contain \n or it can lead to format injection https://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/s3-developer-guide/RESTAuthenti... Many aws SDK libs don't remove \n for you. (I hope it wasn't me who broke it lol)
"Was just pentesting it" ... hopefully with their permission. Be careful.
It wasnt heavy pentesting, just some params jungling. No way it could cause anything :) still funny coincidence
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#626Earlier 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/
Was HN affected by Cloudbleed? I would rather access HN without Cloudflare as man-in-the-middle, especially over HTTPS.
Hahaha too bad.
Google Analytics, Cloudflare, AWS, those are things you can never escape from.
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#627Amazon outage just reported on NBC News.[1] AMZN stock down $3.45 (0.41%). [1] http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Amazon...
https://twitter.com/Schmidt_RB/status/836641520321179648
"I know I'm piling on here, but Amazon's stock price is a better uptime indicator than their status page. #AWS #S3 #awscloud"
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#628Sysadmin: 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
Is there any service that distributes your files to multiple cloud services at the same time? With this recent S3 outage, I'm now feeling uneasy to store files on S3 for mission critical apps.
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#629This can't be only the US-EAST-1 region. I'm a european resident and most things are down for me too.
I've checked eu-west-1 and it works fine for both reads and writes.
I'm not an AWS customer, but if it is comparable to Google Cloud's Multi-regional Storage it should be geo-redundant. Doesn't S3 replicate the data across regions, so in case a region goes offline it won't affect the service?
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#630So much has broken thanks to this. Web apps, slack uploads, parts of Freshdesk etc. I don't love you right now AWS.