Ask HN: Is S3 down? • Hacker News Board

firloop wrote: post #198

xbryanx wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The dashboard doesn't load, nor does content using the generic S3 url [1], but we're in us-west-2 and it works fine if you use the region specific URL [2]. In practice this means our site on S3/Cloudfront is unaffected. [1]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/restocks.io/robots.txt [2]: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/restocks.io/robots.txt

Good catch. My bet is that because s3.amazonaws.com originally referred to the only region (us-east-1) the service that resolves the bucket region automatically is really hosted in us-east-1. I think AWS recommends using the region in the URL for that reason, however that is easier said than done I think. I would bet that a few of Amazon's services use the short version internally and are having issues because of it.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by tjpaudio » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:35 PM UTC

Interestingly, I placed an order on amazon.com and while the order appears when I look at my account, none of the usual automated emails have come. I wonder how deeply this is effecting their retail customers.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by natashabaker » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:36 PM UTC

kevindong wrote: post #253

It really is amazing how many web services are dependent on S3. For instance, the Heroku dashboard is currently down for me. Along with all of my services that are on Heroku.

For those using Heroku - any workarounds to at least put the app in maintenance mode? It seems their entire platform, including API, is down.

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by treehau5 » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:36 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #742

I like how you know this comment is in poor taste, and posted it anyways.

"you might find the comment poor in taste" != "they knew it was poor in taste"

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by LoSboccacc » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:36 PM UTC

prdonahue wrote: post #671

problems wrote: post #623

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's completely ridiculous, get some fucking RAID Amazon. I order drives off newegg directly to my DC and I'm yet to lose data with the cheapest drives available in RAID10.

Yes, solving problems at your scale and AWS' are quite comparable.

but I never lost data off an usb stick how hard could it be!

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by markcerqueira » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

treehau5 wrote: post #746

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #742

I like how you know this comment is in poor taste, and posted it anyways.

" you might find the comment poor in taste" != "they knew it was poor in taste"

"I'm sorry if you're offended..." :)

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by tyingq » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

jedicoder107 wrote: post #741

Status Pages (Services & Products affected by S3 outage) - https://status.heroku.com/ - https://status.aws.amazon.com/ - https://medium.statuspage.io/ - https://status.slack.com/ - http://status.filestack.com/ - http://www.trellostatus.com/ - https://health.autodesk.com/ - http://status.ifttt.com/ - http://status.imgur.com/ - http://status.docker.com/

Pretty good list of other affected sites/services in this article: http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-is...

Some big names and services popular with HN mentioned there. Quora, AirBnb, SendGrid, Downdetector(heh).

Re: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

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Post by boulos » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 9:38 PM UTC

treehau5 wrote: post #746

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #742

I like how you know this comment is in poor taste, and posted it anyways.

" you might find the comment poor in taste" != "they knew it was poor in taste"

Right, it's more of a grey area. It's clearly a bad day for all involved, but there are enough sub-threads here about "What can I move to" that I felt a top-level comment about how GCS has worked hard to continue S3 interop support was warranted (it's clearly not widely known).