Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Post by paulddraper » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 7:02 PM UTC

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."

Post by draw_down » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 7:03 PM UTC

caravel wrote: post #223

But wait. Isn't S3 "the cloud". Everyone promised the cloud would never go down, ever. It has infinite uptime and reliability. Well good thing I have my backups on [some service that happens to also use S3 as a backend].

Post by mystcb » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 7:03 PM UTC

Post by bastawhiz » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC

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

Post by khamoud » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC