Amazon Explains 7/20 S3 Outage

Pupator

http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html

Kudos to Amazon for providing details! :clap

timnosenzo

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

JoeG

The takeaway... expect the unexpected. Kudos to Amazon for explaining. Letting people know the cause, resolution, and changes for prevention really alleviate a lot of frustrations.

Things can go wrong, and they do. Amazon never expected corrupt data from within the gossib stream. They got some, and learned from their mistake.

Trust restored? Sure, for most of us.

Cameron

Pupator wrote:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html

Kudos to Amazon for providing details!

Thanks for the link - very interesting read. Kudos to them for being open about the problem and, more importantly, letting us know how they will attempt to keep it from happening again.

I'm sure there are other pitfalls that are yet to be discovered as this whole cloud-computing model isn't very old.. At least it sounds like Amazon will be able to reset the system more quickly next time.

Richard

Very interesting. Murphy rules: one flipped bit and the whole thing went to hell. Every computer person's worst nightmare. They are to be commended for revealing the gory details.

Baldy

Richard wrote:

Every computer person's worst nightmare.

Especially ours. :yikes