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Amazon.com S3 crash validates Web 2.0 haters

Paul Boutin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:40:00 EDT

An unexplained failure briefly knocked out Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service this morning, taking with it parts of Twitter, The Huffington Post, and many other sites. You can track Amazon status yourself — see the red "Service disruption" icons under Status History. Has anyone yet built RescueTime for sites instead of people? We could park a Web 2.0 Failboard on our front page.

Amazon.com back after over an hour offline

Jackson West — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:20:00 EDT

After a considerable outage that started around 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Amazon.com's homepage is now back up and still trying to get someone, anyone, to buy a Kindle. Shortly after the outage, the company issued a short statement in the forums for 3rd party sellers titled "Amazon Un-Planned Event" — not such an unusual occurrence, apparently, but rarely of this magnitude:

We are currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website. Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved.

According to our commenters, Amazon's web services such as EC2, S3 and SQS experienced no outages, so the problem didn't take down dozens of startups with it. Shame.

Apple's servers slow to a crawl after iPhone SDK announcement

Jordan Golson — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:20:01 EST

The development kit for the iPhone has been released to the wild and Apple's servers are getting slammed by people looking to download it. I can barely get through to the info page and am having no luck actually downloading the SDK. I guess Steve Jobs should have gotten Amazon's S3 storage service.