{"id":734,"date":"2008-07-21T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/734-amazon-s3-grumbles.html"},"modified":"2008-07-21T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:34:33","slug":"amazon-s3-grumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/734-amazon-s3-grumbles.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon S3 grumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Biewald of <a href=\"http:\/\/facestat.com\/\">Facestat<\/a> says Amazon S3, which is business-critical, is his <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.doloreslabs.com\/2008\/07\/amazons-s3-web-service-our-1-cause-of-failure\/\">#1 cause of failure<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Using Amazon\u2019s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as hosting the images ourselves, but we had thought that the reliability of Amazon would be significantly higher. But that now seems wrong&#8230;.It\u2019s astonishing that serving content off our own boxes can be more reliable than serving content off of Amazon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s also discovered that the SLA is not worth much \u2013 the business cost of the recent 7 hour downtime is far in excess of the 25% fee rebate.<\/p>\n<p>S3 is cheap. Personally I think it is unrealistic to make S3 your storage service, have no plan B, and expect high reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has a case to answer too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\">Salesforce.com<\/a> has now just about lived down its <a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/applications\/0,39024653,39155240,00.htm\">2005 outages<\/a>; but incidents like these are terrible publicity for any cloud provider.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:06cd049e-e61f-4e79-a7af-b83314c5bf97\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/amazon+s3\" rel=\"tag\">amazon s3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/availability\" rel=\"tag\">availability<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Biewald of Facestat says Amazon S3, which is business-critical, is his #1 cause of failure: Using Amazon\u2019s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as hosting the images ourselves, but we had thought that the reliability of Amazon would be significantly higher. But that now seems wrong&#8230;.It\u2019s astonishing that serving content off our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/734-amazon-s3-grumbles.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon S3 grumbles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-internet","category-salesforcecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}