Notice how Amazon.com itself is unaffected. They're a lot smarter than us.
Browsing works but some functionality is broken; for example you can't view your order history.
Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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#482Looks like SoundCloud is hosting the tracks on S3 , can't program without my music...
this still works for me https://musicforprogramming.net
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#483Sysadmin: 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
Hey can't change it due to the S3 issue. See their twitter post: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
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#484Its also affecting http://status.fabric.io/
cant build Android apps or update beta builds
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#485This 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.
An open source project minio.io implements Amazon S3 APIs, and allows you to create your own in-house S3 like infra.
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#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, but worse. Some of the apps I have hosted on Heroku (including APIs) are showing "Application Error". Like you, tried logging into dashboard and got a Heroku error page.
Same here :(. Not sure why serving a connection to my dyno depends on S3 being up...
I'll bet that what Heroku does is precompile all the code when you push to Heroku (or doesn't), saves it to a S3 bucket, and kills the running process after a certain amount of inactivity. Once it detects a pending network request, the code gets loaded from the S3 bucket into the EC2 instance, and then your code spins up.
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#487My EC2 Servers are also not provisioning.
Same here. I can't find any information about that though.
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#488Best thing about incidents like these: post-mortems for systems of this scale are absolutely fascinating. Hopefully they publish one.
Agreed. AWS' postmortems are fascinating.
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#489what'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…
(Disclaimer: I work for AWS.) The dashboard is not changing color due to the S3 issue. We're updating the banner in place of that. Edit: Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we u…
Maybe you could encourage your colleagues to host the status page outside of AWS?
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#490Amazon outage just reported on NBC News.[1]
AMZN stock down $3.45 (0.41%).
[1] http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Amazon...