Amazon's S3 experiencing outage

[zatoicchi]

Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service--a major component of its online computing services--is apparently experiencing problems Sunday.

The e-tailer's "Service Health Dashboard" reports that the S3 service in both the United States and Europe is experiencing "elevated error rates."

The outage is causing CenterNetworks images to break, the site reports, and SmugMug reports that "a large portion of the photos and videos stored" on S3 are currently offline.

SmugMug seemed sympathetic to Amazon's woes and offered this advice:

Every component SmugMug has ever used, whether it's networking providers, datacenter providers, software, servers, storage, or even people, has let us down at one point or another. It's the name of the game, and our job is to handle these problems and outages as best we can.

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[Aurion]

offline data being existed in such a large mini-corp. is kinda cheap act,maybe they need to get bigger servers

[anon]

maybe all they need is an UPS and/or running CHKDSK every now and then