Finally! The status page admits something's up.
Ask HN: Is S3 down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#512what'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…
"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard."
Yep.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#513What a shame they took down MegaUpload! Clearly we need greater competition in the wholly-owned-infrastructure, file-hosting-as-a-service space.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#514Updated:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia) Increased Error Rates less 11:38 AM PST We can confirm increased error rates for the EC2 and EBS APIs and failures for launches of new EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing degraded performance of some EBS Volumes in the Region.
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (N. Virginia) Increased Error Rates more
Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia) Increased Error Rates more
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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#515Amazon outage just reported on NBC News.[1] AMZN stock down $3.45 (0.41%). [1] http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Amazon...
Just reported on USA Today.[1] [1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-c...
Fox News now has the story.[1]
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#516This can't be only the US-EAST-1 region. I'm a european resident and most things are down for me too.
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#517SES seems to be downf or us as well.
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#518SES seems to be down for us as well.
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#519Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS. Personally I've been using it for ages and I know most services inside and out. They do suffer downtime in some regions occasionally, but it'd be too expensive at this point to move. And who doesn't suffer downtime? You can't avoid it; you just need a plan to deal with it. For example, having a backup replica bucket in another region and the ability to quick…
Sunk cost fallacy.
I do agree that we should all plan for failures.
However, I also think it's a sign of failure in planning and architecture foresight if it's too expensive to move away from a particular cloud provider.
Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?
#520what'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…
Why is the status board hosted on AWS? Most providers host such pages on a 3rd party, specifically for this reason; correlated failure.