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Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#642Earlier 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.
All websites that use Cloudflare were potentially affected by Cloudbleed which is what makes it such a terrible thing.
You will never know the exact damage, the only thing you can do to play it 100% safe is to rotate all credentials on sites using Cloudflare.
And you can't access HN without going through Cloudflare (unfortunately, but HN is having a hard enough time to keep up with traffic as it is, without Cloudflare it would perform a lot worse than it does).
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#644Is S3 down outside of Us-East too? I can't seem to create a bucket in US-West or EU
Other regions still work, but the web console relies on us-east-1 so you should use the API to create new buckets until the issue is resolved.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#645Mass 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…
MaidSafe's SafeNetwork is a much more robust proposition.
Sia and Storj could be just simple apps in the SafeNetwork.
Using the Blockchain is not adequate for storage purposes, and proof of work is just as silly.
MaidSafe is rewriting all the OSI layers from layer 3 and above, guaranteeing extreme resilience, security and anonymity natively, besides of being totally distributed atomically, self-healing, self-encrypted and self-authenticaticated.
Both Storj and Sia are cute hacks compared to the massive architectural reimagining that MaidSafe is doing.
Read more about it:
Article in Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/maidsafe/
SafeNetwork explained for bitcoiners: https://safe-network-explained.github.io/safe-for-bitcoiners
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#646This seems like an appropriate time as any... Anyone want to list some competitors to S3? Bonus if it also provides a way to host a static website.
Use cloudron.io and install Ghost/Wordpress/Write your own. Just run the server wherever you want.
Interesting that they still host the cloudron.io site on Amazon platform
ping cloudron.io -> 54.192.7.94 -> server-54-192-7-94.dfw3.r.cloudfront.net (Amazon Technologies) [1]
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#647Any opinions you can post on http://wp.me/p7HKNy-5h as well
No
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#648Sysadmin: 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
I like how HN (and others) handle this - there should be a static link to a 3rd party source, like a twitter feed, at the top of any status page.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#649Sysadmin: 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…
This is why I always set up my own monitoring for services in addition to the provider's status page. Simple SmokePing graphs have saved me a ton of time when it comes to troubleshooting provider outages. It especially helps when I can show them exactly when there are problems.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#650Quora is down too. Getting 504. Gateway Timeout.
Is it related to S3??