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I'm getting issues as well. Here's to hoping this issue is just a hiccup and not like the last outage.. otherwise, it may be time to seriously consider alternat

I'm getting issues as well. Here's to hoping this issue is just a hiccup and not like the last outage.. otherwise, it may be time to seriously consider alternatives. Anyone know of a good solution for a self-hosted s3-esque service?

benwilber0 9y ago
> it may be time to seriously consider alternatives they have multi-az support if you use it
- xenophonf 9y ago
  How does one set that up?
- rficcaglia 9y ago
  true, but some internal AWS features themselves rely on S3 and apparently us-east-1. Those are hosed right now, too. You can't even modify bucket metadata via AWS Console or cli tools. So like checking permissions or logging right now is not possible, or CloudTrail.
  - fernandopj 9y ago
    CodeCommit, CodePipeline and EBS on my environments are all affected. I have a domain down and can't push a new deploy. They are all multi-az.
- zedpm 9y ago
  Not exactly. S3 doesn't have AZs at all, it's only split on regions. Further, a bucket can exist in only one region. You can set up cross-region replication, but you of course need to flip the bucket coordinates in all your applications to fail over. It's not nearly as easy as Multi-AZ support in things like RDS.
  - yeukhon 9y ago
    > split on regions I think you really meant s3 objects are redundant in each region, which actually is spanned across multiple DCs.
    - zedpm 9y ago
      I meant that a bucket exists in only one region and that you have to replicate to a different bucket if you want to do anything to improve S3 availability.
- BillinghamJ 9y ago
  S3 is natively cross-AZ. You can’t opt out of that. Active/active cross-region is possible, but far more complex.
sumitkumar 9y ago
good time for a filecoin plug?
toomuchtodo 9y ago
https://www.minio.io/ https://www.minio.io/ https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/ocata/components/swift https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/ocata/components... https://github.com/ceph https://github.com/ceph If you're serving a static site out of S3, put Cloudflare (ugh) in front of it and enable the feature to serve your cached content when the origin is down [1]. When S3 goes sideways, as everyone is learning, it goes down hard and you're probably not going to be able to make changes to objects, read object metadata, etc. [1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172256-How-do-I-cache-static-HTML- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172256-H...
- rhelsing 9y ago
  minio looks great for my purposes. thanks!
  - justinclift 9y ago
    Yep, Minio is really good. :)
mnutt 9y ago
When serving files from s3, if you care about availability it's worth using your own subdomain rather than pointing directly at S3. You can't have a subdomain point to different buckets in different regions directly, but you can point your subdomain to a CDN and have your CDN's origin point to different buckets in different regions.
res0nat0r 9y ago
I would turn on bucket replication and sync everything to another region, or move your primary bucket to us-west-2 or something other than us-east-1 and replicate somewhere else.
mulmen 9y ago
How are you going to self-host for less money and higher reliability than S3 at anywhere near a competitive price?

benwilber0 9y ago

> it may be time to seriously consider alternatives they have multi-az support if you use it

xenophonf 9y ago
How does one set that up?
rficcaglia 9y ago
true, but some internal AWS features themselves rely on S3 and apparently us-east-1. Those are hosed right now, too. You can't even modify bucket metadata via AWS Console or cli tools. So like checking permissions or logging right now is not possible, or CloudTrail.
- fernandopj 9y ago
  CodeCommit, CodePipeline and EBS on my environments are all affected. I have a domain down and can't push a new deploy. They are all multi-az.
zedpm 9y ago
Not exactly. S3 doesn't have AZs at all, it's only split on regions. Further, a bucket can exist in only one region. You can set up cross-region replication, but you of course need to flip the bucket coordinates in all your applications to fail over. It's not nearly as easy as Multi-AZ support in things like RDS.
- yeukhon 9y ago
  > split on regions I think you really meant s3 objects are redundant in each region, which actually is spanned across multiple DCs.
  - zedpm 9y ago
    I meant that a bucket exists in only one region and that you have to replicate to a different bucket if you want to do anything to improve S3 availability.
BillinghamJ 9y ago
S3 is natively cross-AZ. You can’t opt out of that. Active/active cross-region is possible, but far more complex.

sumitkumar 9y ago

good time for a filecoin plug?

toomuchtodo 9y ago

https://www.minio.io/ https://www.minio.io/ https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/ocata/components/swift https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/ocata/components... https://github.com/ceph https://github.com/ceph If you're serving a static site out of S3, put Cloudflare (ugh) in front of it and enable the feature to serve your cached content when the origin is down [1]. When S3 goes sideways, as everyone is learning, it goes down hard and you're probably not going to be able to make changes to objects, read object metadata, etc. [1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172256-How-do-I-cache-static-HTML- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172256-H...

rhelsing 9y ago
minio looks great for my purposes. thanks!
- justinclift 9y ago
  Yep, Minio is really good. :)

mnutt 9y ago

When serving files from s3, if you care about availability it's worth using your own subdomain rather than pointing directly at S3. You can't have a subdomain point to different buckets in different regions directly, but you can point your subdomain to a CDN and have your CDN's origin point to different buckets in different regions.

res0nat0r 9y ago

I would turn on bucket replication and sync everything to another region, or move your primary bucket to us-west-2 or something other than us-east-1 and replicate somewhere else.

mulmen 9y ago

How are you going to self-host for less money and higher reliability than S3 at anywhere near a competitive price?