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By bloid
via readwriteweb.com
Published: Jul 22 2008 / 15:05
Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog's images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 over 6 hours. Startups that use S3 for their storage, such as SmugMug, have also reported problems. Back in February this same thing happened. At the time RWW feature writer Alex Iskold defended Amazon, in a must-read analysis entitled Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds. But it does make us ask questions such as: why can't we get 99% uptime? Or: isn't this what an SLA is for?
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paul_houle replied ago:
Well, there's a limit to how available anything is that's on the other edge of the rat's nest of wires and fiber optic cables we call the internet.
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