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Other than websites and maybe some web-ish apps not too much else would be affected by S3 outage, a DNS outage would affect more of the Internet vs the web.
by mattl 6y ago
Other than websites and maybe some web-ish apps not too much else would be affected by S3 outage, a DNS outage would affect more of the Internet vs the web.
- megous 6y agoAll of Google was gone from my country due to bungled router configuration for half a day some time ago. Now that was fun to watch. Everything from 8.8.8.8 to all their backend APIs for android, to all their web properties, went poof.
- mattl 6y agoYikes. Time to use a few different providers?
- CreepGin 6y agoWebsites and web-ish apps are not a chunk of the internet? Also there are tons of non-web-ish apps that depend on S3.
- dylan604 6y agoi work on multiple projects that are 100% data crunching with content stored on S3 and accessed solely by ec2 instances. there is no UI or public access. yet if S3 went down, we'd be up a certain creek without a certain self-propelling device and a big whole in the boat without a bucket (physically and in the cloud)
- Bedon292 6y agoMaybe "the internet" was a bit too generic. But it destroyed a lot of tech worker productivity for the day at least. Slack, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Docker, etc all had issues. https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-issues-affecting-quora-slack-trello/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-i...
- eru 6y agoThere's actually quite a few enterprise client of S3. Lots in finance, too.