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The world received an unpleasant reminder of what it's like to live without the cloud on Thursday, after Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service fluttered for an hour or so. The incident invoked memories of the S3 outage in March 2017 that caused interruptions to plenty of web services and apps, sparking much rending of …

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  1. jake Silver badge

    Strange.

    I didn't notice a thing. Must be all that clean living.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Strange.

      Must be all that clean living.

      On the contrary, saw no problems because all the NSFW content is properly hosted at Amazon's N.California DC.

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      1. jake Silver badge
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        Re: Strange.

        I work from home, and live in a barn. Everything is SFW here.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Strange.

      We noticed, in that our alerting picked up intermittent availability problems, but were unaffected because we either served from cache or retried from eu-west-1.

      The whole thing was over in just under an hour.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Strange.

        were unaffected because we either served from cache or retried from eu-west-1

        This. Anybody affected wasn't doing things right. Store your data in multiple regions and AZs.

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  2. Lloyd

    Might I suggest a slight headline tweek?

    AWS users felt a great disturbance in the cloud, as millions of S3 instances cried out in terror.

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    1. Seajay#
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      Re: Might I suggest a slight headline tweek?

      Might I suggest a tweak to your tweak

      EC2 has instances, S3 has objects and buckets

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  3. Reg T.

    The Pentagon must have been

    uploading all their sensitive super-secret shite to AWS cloud services, eh?

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    1. xj650t
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      Re: The Pentagon must have been

      More likely somone was downloading all the poorly secured super-secret shite via a big pipe (TM) to Russia/NorkLand

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  4. PowerBenny
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    Questions to ask

    I've got four AWS consultants in the room with me right now. What should I ask them?

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    1. PowerBenny
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      Re: Questions to ask

      I settled for just trolling them with comment like "Well, S3 never goes down though does it."

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  5. handleoclast

    The cloud is the answer to all your problems

    Or, to put it more correctly:

    The cloud is the problem to all your answers.

    /s

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    2/3rds of Amazon's servers are in US-east. (Source: manager with AWS) If you want availability, you must spread out--but hurry.

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    1. Adam 52 Silver badge
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      It's a valid point. If us-east-1 had a big, prolonged, outage then there would be a huge rush elsewhere and nobody knows how AWS would cope in that scenario, especially for the niche services that are only available in a few regions.

      Two thirds seems high though. It also doesn't fit with other published stats about AWS AZ sizes, in theory us-east-1 can be at most 5 times us-west or eu-west.

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  7. Amorous Cowherder
    Boffin

    You vile unbelievers!

    You will perish if you dare to deny the future of IT infrastructure! The cloud is magic incarnate! The cloud is the perfect solution to all IT problems! The cloud is all seeing and all knowing! The cloud is and forever it shall be! Cast off the shackles of your locally managed services and server rooms! See the all encompassing glory of remote, hosted infrastructure Do not ever doubt the cloud in all its glorious forms!

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