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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by BrandonY »

alfredxing wrote: post #118
AndyKelley wrote: post #90

This 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.

Google Cloud Storage comes to mind. From what I recall they can host static websites as well.

Yes, we can. You can host static content in GCS in the same way that you would using S3, or you can Google Cloud Load Balancer to do more complex setups, such as mixing static GCS content and compute URLs on the same domain.

If you're interested: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview#host... https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us...

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Storage.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by stevehawk »

jliptzin wrote: post #362

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!

irc.freenode.net / ##aws (must be registered with nickserv to join)

outage first reported around 11:35CST.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by jasoncrawford »

idlewords wrote: post #200
fletom wrote: post #134

what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on their service page. they just now put up a box at the top saying "We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region." increased error rates? really? Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling an…

@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

Apparently this is not a joke:

“The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.”

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by LeonM »

Just posted on their Twitter:

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by hobofan »

remx wrote: post #340
mijustin wrote: post #202

Started a list of "things to do when S3 is down." https://justinjackson.ca/s3/ What else should I add?

Migrate all your stuff to Cloudfront. S3 is not a CDN!

Or instead of Cloudfront, you could migrate to a service provider that provides meaningful status pages.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by tlrobinson »

idlewords wrote: post #200
fletom wrote: post #134

what's truly incredible is that S3 has been offline for h̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶ two hours now and Amazon still has the audacity to put five shiny green checkmarks next to S3 on their service page. they just now put up a box at the top saying "We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region." increased error rates? really? Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling an…

@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not too far off:

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by MaxfordAndSons »

johngalt wrote: post #406

Sysadmin: 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…

It's unbelievable that the status page is still showing green checkmarks, almost what, 2 hours into the outage?

edit: oh, it is actually because of the outage! So if they can't get a fresh read on the service status from s3, they just optimistically assume it's green... even though the service failing to provide said read... is one of the services they're optimistically showing as green XD

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by draw_down »

soheil wrote: post #345

I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, that's why for images I use imgur. They have a great API and it's 100% free. There is a handy ruby gem [1] which takes a user uploaded image and sticks it on imgur and returns its URL with dimensions etc. On top of that you don't have to pay for traffic to those assets. [1] https://github.com/soheil/imgur

You guys are so funny sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by pm90 »

WaxProlix wrote: post #368
xbryanx wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm getting the same outage in us-west-2 right now.

Same here, and it's 100% consistent, not 'increased error rates' but actually just fully down. I'd just stop working but I have a demo this afternoon... the downsides of serverless/cloud architectures, I guess.

Well what if you'd hosted it on your hard drive and it crashed? It seems like the probability of either is similar nowadays.
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