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.