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> As far as I'm concerned, S3 static file website serving is completely indestructible. I only need one bland Apache server to bump requests over to it.

Is this generally the experience of everyone here?

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S3's not completely indestructible, but it is the most reliable platform I've encountered. During the ~1.5 years I was at Pinterest, we used S3 to store and serve all of the cached images on our site, with CDNs in front of course. We only ran into 2 incidents with S3, and only one of those would have affected "normal" customers. (The other was our own fault -- we suddenly started writing hundreds of files per second to a bucket that wasn't ready for this level of traffic.)

Nothing you can do is going to take S3 as a whole down, and it doesn't appear to have EBS dependencies so it generally dodges the bullet when AWS has troubles. I'm not aware of any significant S3 outage in the last five years.

One would hope not... With the API they offer it should be the type of service that is reasonable easy to make pretty much indestructible.

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