We’re Never Content - Amazon announces a forthcoming CDN layered on top of S3 with “edge locations on three continents” - presumably North America, Europe and Asia - “in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.” Presumably Amazon is planning to use this in-house for their digital media sales, or possibly [...]
Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 - Amazon’s post-mortem on the 7/20 S3 outage. Excerpt: “We’ve now determined that message corruption was the cause of the server-to-server communication problems. More specifically, we found that there were a handful of messages on Sunday morning that had a single bit corrupted such that the message [...]
S3 data corruption: “We’ve isolated this issue to a single load balancer that was brought into service at 10:55pm PDT on Friday, 6/20. It was taken out of service at 11am PDT Sunday, 6/22. While it was in service it handled a small fraction of Amazon S3’s total requests in the US. [...]
SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug) - Blog post about how SmugMug uses (and doesn’t use) Amazon Web Services; I found the comment that EC2 Persistent Storage “isn’t performant enough” intriguing - I’ll be interested to see what its performance characteristics are once it’s available to the public. Excerpt from the post: “Let me [...]