

While S3 Europe is happily trotting along, indeed S3 US is completely down.

Which also means our site is completely down.



The second mayor outage in about a month, although last time it was a DNS issue right outside the S3 infrastructure.



I won't go as far as to say I'll stop using S3 as it's proven very reliable in the last 4 months and has allowed us to handle peak volume a lot better than in the past...

Nevertheless, it's clear that emergency scenarios need to be investigated.

How about AWS developing "replicating buckets" between EU and US?

A bit of load-balancing + error-correcting DNS on top and we've got a world class solution... and honestly, I wouldn't mind at all paying for the bandwidth usage between EU and US to replicate.

Heck if AWS adds loadbalancing DNS to S3, I'd be happy to do my own replication.