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We'll have to wait for the postmortem, but I bet it was an unintentional dependency on S3 that no one realized had come into place until S3 went down -- especia
by oxguy3 10y ago
We'll have to wait for the postmortem, but I bet it was an unintentional dependency on S3 that no one realized had come into place until S3 went down -- especially considering how fast they were able to remove the dependency and fix it.
- ckozlowski 10y agoS3 gets used to store a lot of static content. Can't speak for that team, but I'm sure they'll take that feedback. Happy the banner functionality remained unimpeded.
- idlewords 10y agoIt took them ~30 minutes.
- LunaSea 10y agoIt took them 2 hours actually.
- koolba 10y agoThis reminds me of a GitHub outage from them having a build dependency on GitHub. IIRC, they tried to roll back to building a prior version but since the site was offline, the build failed.
- all_usernames 10y agoPossibly AWS status page wisely relied on a third party, which relied on a fourth party, which relied on S3.