Comments on: Amazon S3 Storage Down?

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

wow I got out and the internet breaks…. Just shows you how much people have come to rely on it, I bet Amazon.com was not down :p

By: gzino

gzino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe some instances on EC2 had issues, but none of ours there were affected. Even S3 actually appeared to be up in Europe. AWS is getting unfairly bashed in many corners IMO. We’ve been on S3 for about 9 months, and this is first major issue. We keep enough recent data on our webservers that we just switched over for a few hours w/o too much pain for our users. Of course need a plan B if want 99%, but if anyone knows a plan A only that has five 9s at less cost than a redundant solution than pls let me know!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Every single submission at Shutterpond was affected. Users could not add/vote on photos for most of the morning.. However it was a small con, considering the price of using s3 services.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

All Amazon web services are down, not only S3. We experience the same issue:

http://www.web20friends.net

It happens to the best of us. And now we can see who relies on their backbone…

-Ivo

By: Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tumblr is reporting all images/audio down due to the outage.

By: Chris Benjaminsen

Chris Benjaminsen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

None of our media content is working over at http://nonoba.com/ either.

Learned us a hard lesson on not relying 100% on an external partner for anything vital!

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

mydealbook.com and therealdeal.com are having the same issue. It appears to be system wide.

By: Chris Farrugia

Chris Farrugia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great photoshop tutorial site, psdtuts.com is having image issues.

By: Carsten Pötter

Carsten Pötter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Images on Ma.gnolia are affected as well. Let’s see how quickly the servers will be up again.

By: Janusz

Janusz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digg here – http://digg.com/hardware/Amazon_S3_World_s_most_reliable_web_service_is_DOWN

My site got badly hit. Had to divert all the bandwidth to local webserver :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Compete.com also affected for some stuff.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon S3 seems to be back up and running, at least for Tripsailor.com

By: Thejesh GN

Thejesh GN — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

S3 is back.

By: tilll

tilll — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This just puts Amazon were it belongs – with the rest of us. For this just proves that anyone can be down. ;-) Isn’t it a true relieve?

The thing to consider is to finally create a backup plan for all your S3/EC2/SQS things. And now we know why Akamai charges an arm and a leg for their CDN. :-)

I am just waiting for Google Mail/Google Apps to be down. Think of that, so many people without their email? That would probably be a revolt.

By: Craig Wood

Craig Wood — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve looked at using S3 as archival storage and backups, but I’ve never thought of them as a true CDN. Are the geographically replicated? Do they make attempts to route individuals to the closest location? Try to go cheap on content distribution and this is likely going to happen.