Amazon's much-touted S3 cloud storage service suffered another hiccup over the weekend, with service fully restored some eight hours after the first onset of problems. One of the sites affected social networking site Twitter [1], where images such as avatars of users became unavailable as they are all stored on S3. Problems were first reported by Amazon beginning at 6:05 a.m. Service in Europe took about six hours to be restored while, service in the United States took another two hours due to a larger number of storage systems.
Amazon says that no data has been loss during this incident, as the company stores every object in multiple locations. Scant details are available at this point, though the company has promised more details once a full investigation has been completed.
For more information on this report:
- check out this NetworkWorld article [2]
Links:
[1] http://www.twitter.com/
[2] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/072108-amazon-outages.html