Ask HN: Is S3 down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#121

Post by obeattie » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:12 PM UTC

Best thing about incidents like these: post-mortems for systems of this scale are absolutely fascinating. Hopefully they publish one.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#122

Post by exodos » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:12 PM UTC

Yah getting the same error in multiple regions as of 1:12 EST

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#123

Post by vpeters25 » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:13 PM UTC

Apologizes for the "me too" post:

It appears to be impacting gotomeeting, I get this error when trying to start a 12pm meeting here:

CloudFront is currently experiencing problems with requesting objects from Amazon S3.

Edit: ironically, my missed 12pm meeting was an Azure training session.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#124

Post by piquadrat » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:13 PM UTC

rawrmaan wrote: post #40

Incredible how much stuff this affected for me. Opbeat is not loading and I can't even deploy because CircleCI seems to depend on S3 for something and my build is "Queued". This seems so dangerous...

Hi, Beni from Opbeat here. Our community site is indeed down unfortunately, but the rest should be unaffected. Where do/did you experience issues?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#125

Post by tech4all » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:13 PM UTC

Yes serious API problems started about 15 minutes ago. Around noon central.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#126

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#127

Post by gamache » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

A piece of hard-earned advice: us-east-1 is the worst place to set up AWS services. You're signing up for the oldest hardware and the most frequent outages.

For legacy customers, it's hard to move regions, but in general, if you have the chance to choose a region other than us-east-1, do that. I had the chance to transition to us-west-2 about 18 months ago and in that time, there have been at least three us-east-1 outages that haven't affected me, counting today's S3 outage.

EDIT: ha, joke's on me. I'm starting to see S3 failures as they affect our CDN. Lovely :/

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#128

Post by jefe_ » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

Getting Issues with Citrix Sharefile api (which I've suspected to run in S3). Seems to only be impacting writes in preliminary assessment.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#129

Post by jefe_ » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

Getting Issues with Citrix Sharefile api (which I've suspected to run in S3). Seems to only be impacting writes in preliminary assessment.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

#130

Post by deesix » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #113

josephlord wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rackspace's Cloudfiles. Does support static websites.

I use both RS Cloud Files and Google's Cloud Storage. Google's is superior in nearly every way. The only con is that it is a Google product that could be deprecated at any point in time. But, with all the acquisition stuff happening over at RS, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about them killing of their cloud offering.

Two things:

1) Google Cloud Storage can host static websites:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website

2) Google Cloud Platform has a 1 year deprecation policy, which would never happen with a product that so many companies and customer rely on (Google Reader had a small but passionate base)

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform