Amazon S3 goes down for the second time
Source: http://tinyurl.com/yf9hw82
As a startup CEO of a photo website, you have to be highly concerned about the quality of your servers. After all, serving up photo data is very bandwidth and storage intensive. In particular, we have been evaluating services from LimeLight Networks to Level 3 to Amazon’s AWS EC2 and S3. We had finally selected Amazon as the service to go with but just as soon as we’re preparing to move onto Amazon’s cloud, the service goes down (pictured above).
This is the second time AWS has failed this year. I have to wonder how services like Twitter and SmugMug are handling this as they are already using the system.
If you’re on Amazon’s S3, send me a shout, let me know what you think of the service.
update: if you want to read about last time it went down you can here on GigaOm. Also, SeekingAlpha.com has a good article on how Amazon AWS won’t compete with CDNs here.
Note that http://www.Posterous.com is very much affected too and it affects not only image files but audio files (not playing @ all) and video.
The Twitter images/avatars I thought was related to a scheduled maintenance,
It all works great ’til it doesn’t work.
We are using it to host video for our new product launch. We expected a lot of requests so a simple solution was needed to handle the unknown peak load.
We tried to be very clever and move everything to be static (s3) with any logic on the client side (ajax/flash) running in the browser. Required some investment of time which seemed to pay spades and was worth while given the bandwidth and uptime available from s3.
It was K.I.S.S….
2 minutes before the email was due to go out we did a quick check – wham its down….
K.I.S.S.of.death…for the launch.
No ETA on the forums…
Seems to be worldwide (US/EU)….
How can everyone be affected if its a cloud?
Can’t help notice that amazon.com still works fine…
Rob.
Good point Rob. Did you check out posterious.com? I phear the day I have to do that on our site because we’ve moved over to ec2 & s3.
2 hours 15 minutes – not that I’m counting or anything like that
Rob.
you’ll love this – our development team can’t keep working on converting to s3 with it down
S3 is not cloud – they are isolated storage delivery islands (POP’s) that are not interconnected. I would suggest looking at a couple of CDN’s that might be more applicable to your mission critical launch…
here is a list
http://www.contentinople.com/proddir/dir_list.asp?dir_id=8