They went down in a similar fashion in '06. Here was their explanation for that.
"We were taking the low-load Saturday as an opportunity to perform some maintenance on the storage system, specifically on some very large (>100 million objects) buckets in order to obtain better load-balancing characteristics. Normally this procedure is entirely transparent to users and bucket owners. In this case, the re-balancing caused an internal transit link to become flooded, this cascaded into other network problems, and the system was made unavailable. We are taking several steps to ensure that we don't run into this situation again. We are modifying our maintenance procedures, and are adding further monitoring to prevent the transit link from getting full. In addition we are modifying the way that our system makes use of the network to prevent the cascading effect we saw on Saturday. Providing world-class reliability is our top priority for Amazon S3. We appreciate your patience, and hope to surpass your expectations going forward."
Originally posted by: allisolm
Whoa!
Now I get:
"We're sorry!
You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.
If you are not a robot please contact us immediately by emailing ad-help-us@amazon.com and we will reinstate your access to our website."
I don't think I'm a robot, but maybe that's one sign of actually being one. :shocked:
Originally posted by: allisolm
Whoa!
Now I get:
"We're sorry!
You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.
If you are not a robot please contact us immediately by emailing ad-help-us@amazon.com and we will reinstate your access to our website."
I don't think I'm a robot, but maybe that's one sign of actually being one. :shocked:
Originally posted by: Jawo
I don't have any problems accessing it...
Originally posted by: goog40
Rumored DoS attack:
http://www.appscout.com/2008/0..._hit_with_denialof.php
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: Chris
It went down minutes after the bundle went up.
In that case Sony should be very happy and Amazon should get slapped wrists
Originally posted by: allisolm
Originally posted by: goog40
Rumored DoS attack:
http://www.appscout.com/2008/0..._hit_with_denialof.php
Someone was really annoyed about the amount of time it took to get an order sent via free super saving shipping.
Originally posted by: goog40
Rumored DoS attack:
http://www.appscout.com/2008/0..._hit_with_denialof.php
Originally posted by: legoman666
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: Chris
It went down minutes after the bundle went up.
In that case Sony should be very happy and Amazon should get slapped wrists
correlation != causation
Originally posted by: spidey07
lol, I called it. They're load balancers were hosed.
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: spidey07
lol, I called it. They're load balancers were hosed.
Damn dude, apostrophes are not your friend. You mangle all of them
Originally posted by: spidey07
your right. sorry.
Originally posted by: goog40
Rumored DoS attack:
http://www.appscout.com/2008/0..._hit_with_denialof.php