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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by hyperpallium »

boulos wrote: 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…

As Relay's chief competitor in this region, we of Windsong have benefited modestly from the overflow; however, until now we thought it inappropriate to propose a coordinated response to the problem.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by gaul »

boulos wrote: 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…

S3 applications can use any object store if they use S3Proxy:

https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by malloryerik »

boulos wrote: 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…

Would use Google but I just can't give up access to China. Sad because I also sympathize with Google's position on China.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by sandGorgon »

boulos wrote: 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…

i have had problems integrating apache spark using google storage. especially because s3 is directly supported in spark.

if you are api compatible with s3, could you make it easy /possible to work with google storage inside spark?

remember i may or may not run my spark on Dataproc.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by ExactoKnight »

AtheistOfFail wrote: post #694
cyberferret wrote: post #680

Well, at least our decision to split services has paid off. All of our web app infrastructure is on AWS, which is currently down, but our status page [0] is on Digital Ocean, so at least our customers can go see that we are down! A pyrrhic victory... ;) [0] - http://status.hrpartner.io EDIT UPDATE: Well, I spoke too soon - even our status page is down now, but not sure if that is linked to the AWS issues, or simply t…

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

The biggest change heroku needs to make is support different regions.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by greenleafjacob »

kaishiro wrote: post #935
cperciva wrote: post #787

S3 is currently (22:00 UTC) back up. The timeline, as observed by Tarsnap: First InternalError response from S3: 17:37:29 Last successful request: 17:37:32 S3 switches from 100% InternalError responses to 503 responses: 17:37:56 S3 switches from 503 responses back to InternalError responses: 20:34:36 First successful request: 20:35:50 Most GET requests succeeding: ~21:03 Most PUT requests succeeding: ~21:52

Playing the role of the front-ender who pretends to be full-stack if the money is right, can someone explain the switch from internal error to 503 and back? Is that just them pulling s3 down while they investigate?

Could be anything. Most likely scenario is the internal error is a load shedding error and the 503s were when the system became completely unresponsive. If it was a configuration issue then it is more likely that it would have directly recovered rather than going 'internal error -> 503 -> internal error'.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

treehau5 wrote: post #746
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #742

I like how you know this comment is in poor taste, and posted it anyways.

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

I would argue the very notion that he thought the disclaimer might be necessary meant he full well knew he was posting in poor taste.

And as he states, he knows they have outages too. So it's like if there were two towns in tornado alley, and one town got hit by a tornado, and the other was like "well, it might be in poor taste, but there isn't currently a tornado in our town".

If Google had some higher ground to stand on when they made their marketing posts, maybe they'd have merit. But when they're just pushing product that's no better than the product they're commenting about, it's just spam. If he said "we have 30% less outages than AWS" or something, at least there'd be merit to posting it.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

7ewis wrote: post #882
hkmurakami wrote: post #873

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>(Before that, you guys didn't at all have your shit together when it came to customer support) Sounds like it basically coincides with Diane Greene coming on board to run the show -- which is great news for all of us with increased competition on not just the technical front but also support (which is often the deal maker/breaker)

Is Diane really that good? I was at a talk last year, where she spoke, and as much as I love Google, it was one of the boat boring talks I've ever heard in my life. So monotone and uninteresting... and I'm probably one of the biggest Google fans out there.

Ability to give interesting talks and ability to run good products are two completely different talents, and your comment is therefore pretty meaningless. In fact, I'd argue a lot of people good at one are not good at the other.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by RulerOf »

scrollaway wrote: post #821
vikiomega9 wrote: post #809

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a curious note, how do you guys use lambda?

It's a little outdated now, but this post details our pipeline: https://hearthsim.info/blog/how-we-process-replays/

As someone who's literally just starting to look at Lambda, thanks for that quick read.

I had a lot of "chicken and egg"-type questions about using it, and seeing that critical step of bootstrapping the whole thing via the API Gateway was really informative.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by themihai »

JPKab wrote: post #753
boulos wrote: 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…

I've used both Google Cloud and AWS, and as of a year or so ago, I'm a Google Cloud convert. (Before that, you guys didn't at all have your shit together when it came to customer support) It's not in bad taste, despite other comments saying otherwise. We need to recognize that competition is good, and Amazon isn't the answer to everything.

GCP has always felt like a forever beta product. On top of that you get a lot of lockin so I would never recommend GCP for a long term project.
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