Comments on: Amazon S3 Storage Service Goes Down, Still Not Up http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amazon’s EC2 Service Suffers Outage http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193748 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:43:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193748 [...] Last year in July, the S3 service went offline causing widespread problems. It also suffered an outage in February 2008. But by and large, Amazon has had a good record with its services as far as uptime is [...]

]]> By:   Should cloud computers worry about Salesforce.com’s recent outage?  by Thomas Keeley http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193747 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:59:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193747 [...] both February and July of this past year, many of Amazon’s S3 users were knocked offline, not just for minutes, [...]

]]> By: Long live the DBA | Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193746 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193746 [...] Disaster recovery no longer just means preparing for your own business failures: with cloud computing, it means preparing for the failures of your cloud vendor too.  No cloud vendor is too big to experience problems: check out the Amazon S3 outage in July 2008 and the Amazon S3 outage in February 2008. [...]

]]> By: dips.aluscio.us | S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services [GigaOM] http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193745 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193745 [...] this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon suffered a major outage that knocked many of its customers [...]

]]> By: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Some Thoughts on Amazon S3's Recent Outage http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193744 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:59:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193744 [...] this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon suffered a major outage that knocked many of its customers [...]

]]> By: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193743 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:46:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193743 [...] this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon suffered a major outage that knocked many of its customers [...]

]]> By: אלעד בבלוגלי » ארכיון הבלוג » Amazon S3 למטה והשמחה גדולה http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193742 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:28:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193742 [...] הפעם השניה השנה שהשרות אינו זמין ויחד איתו יורדים שרותים רבים אחרים [...]

]]> By: Amazon S3 goes down for the second time « Just another day in Paradies http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193741 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:50:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193741 [...] if you want to read about last time it went down you can here on GigaOm. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Yahoo, Now Offering Search as a Web ServiceAmazon [...]

]]> By: Trackvia - Online Database Blog » Blog Archive » Outsourcing Outages? http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193740 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:02:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193740 [...] cloud’s outages. In the last few months, there have been significant cloud-service problems at Amazon, HP, and [...]

]]> By: Amazon’s Services Edge Towards the Enterprise - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193739 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:10:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193739 [...] just improve availability and control for Amazon’s customers. They also make EC2 and S3 more appealing for enterprises. Interested in web infrastructure? Check out our upcoming [...]

]]> By: How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193738 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:43:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193738 [...] Web Services (AWS), despite a recent outage, is the current poster child for this model as it provides a variety of services, among them the [...]

]]> By: How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-210673 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:43:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-210673 [...] Web Services (AWS), despite a recent outage, is the current poster child for this model as it provides a variety of services, among them the [...]

]]> By: How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-210886 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:43:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-210886 [...] Web Services (AWS), despite a recent outage, is the current poster child for this model as it provides a variety of services, among them the [...]

]]> By: C. Janine Hodge » Blog Archive » Amazon S3 Outage: A Gentle Reminder http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193737 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:17:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193737 [...] Amazon S3 Storage Service Goes Down, Still Not Up [...]

]]> By: Web Services Economics : The Thomas Howe Company http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193736 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:02:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193736 [...] I was running down the cause of Friday’s S3 service interruption, I came across this excellent financial analysis of the cost savings of a web services deployment [...]

]]> By: Jeremiah Staes http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/#comment-193735 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:18:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=11521#comment-193735 It affected me a little bit – one of my subcontractors relies on AWS for file hosting, and so it was a temporary problem for me.

That said, everything goes down. It is incumbent on you to not rely on one service, period. You wouldn’t rely on one spindle of a hard drive; you’d backup. Having multiple options is not only prudent but required, especially when using third-parties as everything will fail at some point and nothing, nothing is going to be 100% uptime, even internal systems you own completely yourself. That’s a very false sense of security.

I like AWS and still would recommend it. Now, if this becomes a habit, then, maybe that might change.

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