Amazon S3 service failure is the harshest I’ve seen yet
Posted on: July 20, 2008If your net-surfing adventures today have been disrupted by missing images, files failing to download, and other wack borkery, it could be related to the Amazon S3 service failure. Linden Lab and Second Life are affected too, because we host a number of things — including the viewer downloads and my video tutorials — via S3. We’ve redirected the former, but the latter are in limbo until this ceases.
Aside from a lack of elegant upload tools, S3 is generally very reliable and the last time I’ve encountered such a problem (in memory) was on Feb. 15, earlier this year. But today’s outage is worse, going on for several hours now, and it’s also added to Twitter’s woes — yup, no images on your Twitter account is related.
The blogosphere is burning, and I wish all the best to the folks working on getting things back to “normal”; you can see updates on the AWS Service Health Dashboard and click “more” for updates.
I of course posted an update to my latest Second Life blog post and am anxious for this to be over.
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July 20th, 2008 at 3:28 PM PDT
I was wondering what the heck has been going on. I've noticed it off and on all day. Thanks for the info!
July 20th, 2008 at 3:51 PM PDT
dear Torley, we have experienced the same problem
S3 Amazing is our storage provider and we are waiting for the fix to this outage, that it is lasting many hours…….
the most serious down, we had with them
July 21st, 2008 at 7:44 AM PDT
**it happens! I'm amazed everything works as well as it does considering the magnitude of cyber space… thanks for the update Torley… Mimz
July 21st, 2008 at 9:49 AM PDT
it drove me nuts yesterday with wordpress, i thought it was all me for sure. but for once, it was not
i uploaded a header image about 15 times before i realized it was not me :p
did it also affect gravatar? i could not upload to it either
July 21st, 2008 at 1:14 PM PDT
I wonder if this is the reason the SLURL pages are even more borked than ususal for me in Firefox, no TP link at all now
July 27th, 2008 at 7:16 AM PDT
@Angel: No, that's a different reason — which I reported here: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-735
It's funny and sad how one broken (or misspelled) link will block someone from getting to their destination, but goes to show how tiny things make a gargantuan difference.