socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

An outage at Amazon Web Services is causing major downtime across the cloud this morning, as sites which rely on the cloud storage service have been unable to reliably connect all morning. Although Amazon's web services are widely used by Southern California tech startups, it's unclear how many are being affected by the downtime.

S3 100

S3 Southern California Web Sites 100

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates.

Web 150

Web S3 EC2 Services 150