Sunday, July 20, 2008

Amazon S3 - Outage

Many sites are currently feeling the pain of an Amazon S3 outage. According to http://status.aws.amazon.com/, S3 has been down since about 9AM PDT today.

Unfortunately, my company's site is one that 's impacted.

The AWS Service Health Dashboard is helpful but I'd prefer something that provides a more proactive notification when there's a service interruption. Something along the lines of an SMS once a service disruption is announced.

Perhaps there's something out there already that I haven't found?

UPDATE: As of 5PM PDT, Amazon is reporting that the system is back to normal.

UPDATE: Here's the latest summary of the chain of events from Amazon. Nice of them to not make every customer email for SLA credit.


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