Comments on: Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:14:00 +0000

Hi Don,
I’m working on a community portal for language learning and I’m evaluating using S3 as a CDN for our media content. I was wondering if you’d be willing to shed a little more light into how you’re able to switch between specific S3 clusters. Part of our requirement is doing a bit of traffic shaping to allow our users to access content from a node as close to them as possible.

Any insight into this would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
-A

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » S3 outage - We weren’t affected

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:43:48 +0000

[...] written about Amazon S3 outages in the past, but in the last ~12 months, we’ve only seen a single ~2 minute outage window (on [...]

By: see a puffin eat a fish » Who is brave enough to try SimpleDB?

see a puffin eat a fish » Who is brave enough to try SimpleDB? — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:35:26 +0000

[...] I’ve been doing a lot of work with Amazon’s S3, pay as you go, simple storage server. I know that S3 has had problems but IMHO the trade offs are absolutely worth it for storing large files remotely. If reliability is a concern, it’s pretty straightforward to write a local caching mechanism for large media files. I need to do this for redundancy as well as to save money on frequently accessed files. Plus if you’re lazy you can always try Squid or some other hardware caching solution. [...]

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By: Britney

Britney — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:32:55 +0000

Hi, everybodye

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Links Dump — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:31:18 +0000

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By: Pragmatic Dictator » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-05

Pragmatic Dictator » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-05 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:05:55 +0000

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By: tecosystems » links for 2007-02-03

tecosystems » links for 2007-02-03 — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:33:28 +0000

[...] SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems “Amazon does need to get better about communicating with their customers. They need to have a page which shows the health of their systems, and pro-active notification of major issues, a 24/7 contact method, etc.” – all services need this (tags: Amazon S3 outages customers status) [...]

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: What would you like to know?

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:20:21 +0000

[...] As I mentioned in my article about performance issues with S3, I’m speaking on the subject at ETech this year. I’m planning on spending roughly half the time on the business ramifications and half on technical architecture. And I’ll be posting the slides or a PDF or something here after the presentation. [...]

By: onethumb

onethumb — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:40:11 +0000

@J.S.:

Love to chat via email and compare notes, since it sounds like you’re high-volume like we are. Drop me a line if you get a second: don at smugmug

Don