A few years ago, iBankCoin was hosted at a big corporate data center. It was great, with lots of bells and whistles, but very little service and I wanted to have someone responsible for the site’s functionality. I switched over to a small firm and have been very happy since I’ve made the decision.
Today, Amazon’s s3 cloud corporate server farm is offline — taking with it a sundry of sites and apps — like Stocktwits, Amazon’s echo, Medium, Trello and many, many more.
If you’re having an issue logging onto a site, blame the fuckers from Amazon.
The corraling of sites into these corporate ghettos leaves the very fabric of the internet itself at risk. If you’re running a site and rely upon it as your sole source of income, reconsider the alluring marketing pages of Amazon’s AWS or GoDaddy and stay local instead.
The cloud never goes down, until it does, and then you’re fucked.
CRINGEWORTHY presentation during AWS failure.
The moment the presenter realizes S3 is down. #AWS #S3 #Amazon pic.twitter.com/S8gY1J9lrH
— Ian Sherwood (@ian_surewould) February 28, 2017
The Godfather of Fake News, Sec.gov, is down. Thank you Amazon.
Really curious how this happened. I would think AWS has triple redundancy for everything.
Cia website down too?
If welfare payments aren’t wired there will be blood on the streets.
The Pelican room got hit too.
The Fly wins again