Living in the Clouds

Amazon S3 is down… AGAIN.

While there is huge potential in the concept of cloud based storage, we continue to see a huge backlash when it fails. For some sites like Twitter they only lose some images, for others like Docstoc, we are dead in the water.

For now, I guess we have no choice but to chalk it up to growing pains of the prototype like landscape we all live in.

You can get the latest updates from Amazon’s rather elaborate S3 status page.

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IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Blog Archive » Case Study on the Cost of Downtime: Amazon S3 Outage Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
[...] Sean Percival chalking it up to growing pains of the prototype like landscape we all live in. [...]

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July 20, 2008 at 1:19 pm Bryan Landers

That's such a drag to hear. I was under the false impression that an S3 failure was unlikely...how does this impact the business decision of utilizing AWS as a primary (or not exclusively backup) solution?
July 20, 2008 at 3:38 pm sean percival

It is LESS likely to fail still able to. Looks like we need a cloud service you can easily swap to when this happens. Like how datacenters swap network and power during outages.
July 20, 2008 at 4:58 pm Bryan Landers

Hmm...bummer...sounds expensive. A cloud of clouds would work...go Google go!