about 1 month ago
by dylan
by dylan
Amazon S3 went down for about 8 hours yesterday, effecting a number of our in-house projects including this site, Artlog, and all sites powered by Backlight. Considerably larger sites that also use S3 for media storage like Twitter and Tumblr were similarly hamstrung.
S3 is an amazing service despite this and other recent outages. Fortunately, Amazon recently setup a page providing status updates for their web services which went a long ways toward effectively keeping customers informed of progress. It’s an example other companies providing web-services should strive toward.
