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AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world

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Re: So what we now know is...

"If an S3 region becomes unavailable, S3 itself should route applications to another region that hosts a redundant automatic copy"

That would make things simple for users. Chris Mellor's article points out that S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. So now we know that's simple for Amazon, not for the user.

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