Living in the Clouds

Sean Percival

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July 20th, 2008
By: Sean Percival

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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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? - Bryan Landers

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. - sean percival

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

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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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Sean Percival is a web developer and author with many years experience of messing around on the Internet for fun and profit. He has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The Orange County Register and several online publications. Sean lives in Hollywood, California and works at Docstoc.com.

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