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I'm getting issues as well. Here's to hoping this issue is just a hiccup and not like the last outage.. otherwise, it may be time to seriously consider alternatives. Anyone know of a good solution for a self-hosted s3-esque service?

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https://www.minio.io/

https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/ocata/components...

https://github.com/ceph

If you're serving a static site out of S3, put Cloudflare (ugh) in front of it and enable the feature to serve your cached content when the origin is down [1]. When S3 goes sideways, as everyone is learning, it goes down hard and you're probably not going to be able to make changes to objects, read object metadata, etc.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172256-H...

minio looks great for my purposes. thanks!

Yep, Minio is really good. :)

How are you going to self-host for less money and higher reliability than S3 at anywhere near a competitive price?

I would turn on bucket replication and sync everything to another region, or move your primary bucket to us-west-2 or something other than us-east-1 and replicate somewhere else.

When serving files from s3, if you care about availability it's worth using your own subdomain rather than pointing directly at S3. You can't have a subdomain point to different buckets in different regions directly, but you can point your subdomain to a CDN and have your CDN's origin point to different buckets in different regions.

> it may be time to seriously consider alternatives

they have multi-az support if you use it

How does one set that up?

true, but some internal AWS features themselves rely on S3 and apparently us-east-1. Those are hosed right now, too. You can't even modify bucket metadata via AWS Console or cli tools. So like checking permissions or logging right now is not possible, or CloudTrail.

CodeCommit, CodePipeline and EBS on my environments are all affected. I have a domain down and can't push a new deploy. They are all multi-az.

Not exactly. S3 doesn't have AZs at all, it's only split on regions. Further, a bucket can exist in only one region. You can set up cross-region replication, but you of course need to flip the bucket coordinates in all your applications to fail over. It's not nearly as easy as Multi-AZ support in things like RDS.

> split on regions

I think you really meant s3 objects are redundant in each region, which actually is spanned across multiple DCs.

I meant that a bucket exists in only one region and that you have to replicate to a different bucket if you want to do anything to improve S3 availability.

S3 is natively cross-AZ. You can’t opt out of that.

Active/active cross-region is possible, but far more complex.

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