Amazon’s Baptism of Fire: S3 Outage
Source: GMANews.tv
Several companies lost access to their own files when Amazon.com Inc.’s pay-as-you-go data storage system went down Friday morning.
Amazon said computers that power its Simple Storage Service were unreachable at one of three data centers for about two hours. By 7 a.m. Pacific Time, most users’ problems were resolved.
The two-year-old storage service is one of several "cloud computing" offerings from Amazon.
Web startups and others pay to store and crunch data on Amazon’s servers rather than running their own. By the end of 2007, about 330,000 people had registered to use the services.
From NYTimes.com
The technical problems affected a host of startups that use S3, such as the messaging service Twitter. The New York Times also uses S3 to store and deliver articles from its historical archives, parts of which were unavailable this morning (Feb. 15).