Amazon S3 – Service Unavailable
// July 20th, 2008 // Service Providers, Web
Amazon’s S3 service is having some major outages right now. This is the first major downtime I’ve seen from them, apart from an hour or so in February, and is rather frustrating because Youniverse uses S3 as its photo host, but Akamai as a CDN. Even though Akamai will cache for a period of time, it will ultimately pass through what S3 delivers. In this case, a “Service Unavailable” message.
Youniverse isn’t the only site that uses S3 as a major provider of service. SmugMug have completely taken down their site until S3 is running properly again, and Twitter are not showing profile images.
Amazon’s Status Blog indicates that they’ve solved the problem, and are making “incremental progress”. Looks like we’re going to have to come up with a fallback solution for when S3 goes belly-up again!
