Amazon s3 is down

Ifttt is affected too. Some people can't turn on their lights at home. Lol.
 
We have a test setup there. Thank goodness it's not our live setup.
 
Sinbad said:
Cloud is just someone else's computer at the end of the day.
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Exactly! I've often thought this: what the hell is the fuss with 'Cloud' anyway? Wasn't there remote hosting at the very birth of the Internet in the 1990s? Haven't we all been uploading files to remote servers anyway? Oh no, now we're going to call our server farm 'Cloud Infrastructure' and everybody is going to feel super-jazzed about it and be prepared to pay us way more! WTF is that all about?
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Exactly! I've often thought this: what the hell is the fuss with 'Cloud' anyway? Wasn't there remote hosting at the very birth of the Internet in the 1990s? Haven't we all been uploading files to remote servers anyway? Oh no, now we're going to call our server farm 'Cloud Infrastructure' and everybody is going to feel super-jazzed about it and be prepared to pay us way more! WTF is that all about?
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Costs.

It costs a hell of a lot less to pay domains.co.za amazon Google whoever to do this for me.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Exactly! I've often thought this: what the hell is the fuss with 'Cloud' anyway? Wasn't there remote hosting at the very birth of the Internet in the 1990s? Haven't we all been uploading files to remote servers anyway? Oh no, now we're going to call our server farm 'Cloud Infrastructure' and everybody is going to feel super-jazzed about it and be prepared to pay us way more! WTF is that all about?
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It's the false belief that someone else can do it better and cheaper than you can. There's some economy of scale, but zero real accountability
 
Sinbad said:
It's the false belief that someone else can do it better and cheaper than you can. There's some economy of scale, but zero real accountability
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Hey I have zero problem with the concept of outsourcing the hardware and maintenance. I have a problem with the WORD 'Cloud' to replace 'server farm' or 'remote hosting' or any of the other non-sexy terms for the exact same thing. No Jimmy, your nude photos aren't safely hosted in Apple's 'Cloud', they're spread out across a bunch of physical servers somewhere in North America.
 
Fat finger: Typo caused Amazon's big cloud-computing outage

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of its billing system caused the five-hour outage of some Amazon Web Services servers on Tuesday.

In a summary posted online, the Seattle company says a command meant to remove a small number of servers for one of its S3 subsystems was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed. A full restart was required, which took longer than expected due to how fast Amazon Web Services has grown over the past few years.
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More at: https://apnews.com/cd6fed37fb6444b0...po-caused-Amazon's-big-cloud-computing-outage
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Exactly! I've often thought this: what the hell is the fuss with 'Cloud' anyway? Wasn't there remote hosting at the very birth of the Internet in the 1990s? Haven't we all been uploading files to remote servers anyway? Oh no, now we're going to call our server farm 'Cloud Infrastructure' and everybody is going to feel super-jazzed about it and be prepared to pay us way more! WTF is that all about?
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Distributed hosting to nearest point of presence is the main difference.

You are always connecting to the closest / faster host and there is redundancy (when they don't get it wrong).

Data is more valuable than ever.
 
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