Amazon S3 encounters downtime

By Vivek Puri | February 15th, 2008 at 05:10 pm ET     7 Comments »    

As more and more startups, including us, start moving towards Amazon Webservices(S3+EC2), the service hit a snag today. Reading through the Amazon AWS forum for S3, the complete infrastructure has been now down for almost 3 hours for quite a few teams. Response from AWS team has been pretty fast(11 minutes after being first reported), but still in no way compensates for the downtime. Looks like AWS is joining the league of RIM.

Nice attempt NYT

By Vivek Puri | February 6th, 2008 at 08:58 pm ET         

I think this is the second article from New York Times in a month or so where they describe how painful the experience is for kids to get admission into schools in India. I wonder what can be the reason for this sudden interest from NYT in Indian education system. Can we get the real motivation for this article? Please I can bet the large number of Indian immigrants leaving US for the better life in India has rankled few somewhere who in turn want to use media and force the remaining back. More on screwed up immigration process and raw immigrant economics later.