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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#791

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Could be worse, your entire infrastructure could be hosted on Heroku. You don't use S3 but because they do, your entire infrastructure crumbles.

I didn't realize Heroku used s3 until today, when my heroku app failed. Makes me wonder why I'm using heroku instead of just aws.

Heroku is a rewrap of AWS for simplicity.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#792

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Could be worse, your entire infrastructure could be hosted on Heroku. You don't use S3 but because they do, your entire infrastructure crumbles.

I didn't realize Heroku used s3 until today, when my heroku app failed. Makes me wonder why I'm using heroku instead of just aws.

Skyliner is an option if you're doing real production stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#793

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" you might find the comment poor in taste" != "they knew it was poor in taste"

"I'm sorry if you're offended..." :)

Well, getting offended by something that isn't a direct, personal attack is a sign of emotional immaturity.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Thank god I checked HN. I was driving myself crazy last half hour debugging a change to S3 uploads that I JUST pushed to production. Reminds me of the time my dad had an electrician come to work on something minor in his house. Suddenly power went out to the whole house, electrician couldn't figure out why for hours. Finally they realized this was the big east coast blackout!

Disadvantage of being in the detail I guess. My thinking was Imgur seems broken today >>> Something major on the intertubes must be fk'd.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Apologies if you find this to be in poor taste, but GCS directly supports the S3 XML API (including v4): https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability and has easy to use multi-regional support at a fraction of the cost of what it would take on AWS. I directly point my NAS box at home to GCS instead of S3 (sadly having to modify the little PHP client code to point it to st…

What software are you using for your NAS box?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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post #735

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Apologies if you find this to be in poor taste, but GCS directly supports the S3 XML API (including v4): https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability and has easy to use multi-regional support at a fraction of the cost of what it would take on AWS. I directly point my NAS box at home to GCS instead of S3 (sadly having to modify the little PHP client code to point it to st…

What is your NAS box doing with S3/GCS ?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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These service health boards are more like advertisement page then actual status of the service.

I guess their bizarre thinking is something along the lines of: "unless we have proof that noone can access the service, we won't change the indicator from green to yellow. Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

I think it's more, "if the service can't do what people need it to do, that's a problem; if the service cluster gets wedged hard enough to stop responding to the requests of our monitoring system, that's a failure."

Which would make sense (and is sorta-kinda a best-practice) if Amazon wrote services such that they "crashed early"—but instead they're seemingly written so the backend lock up and be rendered completely useless at "doing its job" but will continue to run just fine.

Either of those two design decisions is potentially a good thing on its own, but they need to be considered in light of one-another if you want your status page to make any sense. If you want to report cluster failures, code your clusters to actually fail. If you want to keep your clusters up, write your monitoring checks as whole-stack acceptance tests.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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post #735

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Apologies if you find this to be in poor taste, but GCS directly supports the S3 XML API (including v4): https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability and has easy to use multi-regional support at a fraction of the cost of what it would take on AWS. I directly point my NAS box at home to GCS instead of S3 (sadly having to modify the little PHP client code to point it to st…

What is your NAS box doing with S3/GCS ?

Remote backup (Synology). I've asked them more than once to directly support GCS, or even just to accept my damn patch ;).
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