Amazon S3 encounters downtime
By Vivek Puri | February 15th, 2008 at 05:10 pm ET
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.
on February 15th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Yeah - we got hit too. Its back up now, although it was a painful 3 hours long. quite a drag…
on February 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
[…] Ankoder has experienced down time due to a Amazon wide issue. Many other services that relies on S3 are also affected. This definitely raises an alarm for many AWS users. We will consider some alternatives as a failover solution. I had not expect a large network like Amazon with that many users is capable dropping out at the same time. […]
on February 15th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
We’ve gotten so good at reducing adoption friction, that we’ll see a lot of this kind of thing. It just isn’t possible to plan for it.
More on my blog:
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/google-reports-iphone-usage-50x-other-handsets-amazon-s3-goes-down-low-friction-has-a-cost/
Best,
BW
on February 15th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Really scary for everyone who depends 100% on Amazon for their core. It was easy to believe that Amazon is so big that this could never happen.
Definitely shows you should have a Plan B in any situation.
Going to make my case a lot tougher in selling Amazon Web Services to clients. I have really been evangelizing them.
on February 15th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Today%u2019s event clearly means that Amazon has a %u201Csingle point of failure%u201D and that their users need to take a second look at the service. Nirvanix has nodes across the globes, which eliminates the worry of no single point of failure avoiding the potential for downtime for their customers.