Amazon S3 Downtime

February 15, 2008 12:56 PM
Related Categories: Web Dev

Anyone in ColdFusion land using Amazons S3 service for their apps?  Were you affected by the reported downtime today?

I have seen comments that the downtime was a few hours and others that it was only a few minutes (from Twitter).  Seems like a great service, but in thinking of the downtime today it got me wondering how one would go from using S3 to transitioning to another cloud or perhaps a local storage system.

Obviously I know little about S3 and haven't used it, so any light people can shed would be helpful to me and probably others regarding stability and ease of migration.


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Seems to me you could write your server side code to use S3 when it's up, and fall back to local storage if it isn't.
When S3 comes back, sync all the changes up to it.
# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 2/18/08 7:15 AM

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