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They standup to it too. I know a number of large companies in town that store a ton of stuff in S3 and have never lost a one of them. However, they did once see
by twistedpair 12y ago
They standup to it too. I know a number of large companies in town that store a ton of stuff in S3 and have never lost a one of them. However, they did once see some wonky API behavior a few times. Nevertheless, probably a lot better than your internal IT guys can provide.
Durability and Availability however are different. AWS did go down for 8 hours in 2012, but as implied by the Durability claims, all the objects were there when they came back up.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoPrimary S3 (s3.amazonaws.com) is bi-coastal redundant. If us-east-1 goes down, your objects will continue to be served from their Oregon location transparently. This doesn't apply if you're using S3 as a website endpoint though, unless you're doing your own service checks/DNS failover.