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Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by johansch »

perlgeek wrote: post #489
ckozlowski wrote: post #466

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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?

Maybe with GCP? :)

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by robineyre »

Hi all. I came across this forum on Google. I have the same error - and it's all a bit beyond me. I'm not a techie or coder but set up Amazon S3 several months ago to backup my websites and it generally works fine - and has saved my bacon on a couple of occasions. (Also back up in Google Drive.)

As someone who's really only a yellow belt (assuming you're all black belts!), just so I understand ('cos I'm cacking myself!) ...

I'm seeing the same issue. Does this mean there's a problem with Amazon? I can't access either of my S3 accounts even if I change the region, and I'm concerned it may be something I've done wrong, and deleted the whole lot. It was working yesterday!!!

Would be massively grateful for a heads up. Thanks in advance.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by Cshelton »

alexbilbie wrote: post #503
DenisM wrote: post #459

Now might be a good time to ponder a lasting solution. Clearly, we cannot trust AWS, or any other single provider, to stay up. What is the shortest, quickest to implement, path to actual high availability? You would have to host your own software which can also fail, but then at least you could do something about it. For example, you could avoid changing things during critical times of your own business (e.g. a trade…

High availability is improved by hosting in multiple AWS regions. S3 offers alternative region replication functionality and you can use Cloudfront of another CDN to load balance between buckets

Yup, all of our fail overs worked flawlessly. You wouldn't even be able to tell if you didn't know.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by taobility »

carbocation wrote: post #441
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…

People were joking about this but it turns out to be true: they host the status icons on their service: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

if that simple, why the text desc for Details also didn't reflect the incident?

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by dang »

fletom wrote: post #495

are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be

That's piling on, and rudely at that. Please don't be rude on HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756997 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by z4chj »

robineyre wrote: post #572

Hi all. I came across this forum on Google. I have the same error - and it's all a bit beyond me. I'm not a techie or coder but set up Amazon S3 several months ago to backup my websites and it generally works fine - and has saved my bacon on a couple of occasions. (Also back up in Google Drive.) As someone who's really only a yellow belt (assuming you're all black belts!), just so I understand ('cos I'm cacking mysel…

Yes this is an issue with Amazon and there is little you can do besides wait until it has been resolved
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