February 28, 2017. S3 went down and took down a good portion of AWS and the Internet in general. For almost the entire time that it was down, the AWS status page showed green because the up/down metrics were hosted on... you guessed it... S3.
- 2008 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116445
- 2010 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396191
- 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033172
- 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673 (Postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775667)
Maybe they should start using real software instead of mathematicians' toy langs