http://www.htmlist.com/tech-news/amazon-explains-s3-outage-gossip-kills/ A Web Development Blog by Synapse Studios Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.htmlist.com/tech-news/amazon-explains-s3-outage-gossip-kills/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Trusting In The Cloud: A Call For Post-Mortem As Facebook Loses Notification Settings :: HTMList.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:57:03 +0000 http://www.htmlist.com/?p=248#comment-201 [...] Several months ago, Amazon’s distributed file storage system, S3, suffered a severe outage that lasted for hours. Now, the situation is a bit different: Entire businesses rely on Amazon S3 to be functioning for their livelihoods. Outages mean lost income and lost trust. So Amazon did what Facebook absolutely must do: they issued a full post-mortem that explained their engineers’ findings and failings, their root-cause analysis, what caused the problem to cascade across their network, and most importantly, the measures they’ve taken to ensure that, to the best of their ability, this would never happen again. [...] [...] Several months ago, Amazon’s distributed file storage system, S3, suffered a severe outage that lasted for hours. Now, the situation is a bit different: Entire businesses rely on Amazon S3 to be functioning for their livelihoods. Outages mean lost income and lost trust. So Amazon did what Facebook absolutely must do: they issued a full post-mortem that explained their engineers’ findings and failings, their root-cause analysis, what caused the problem to cascade across their network, and most importantly, the measures they’ve taken to ensure that, to the best of their ability, this would never happen again. [...]

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