My brother paged me early this morning around 6:30 am about MessageDance not rendering CSS , I woke up came back to my laptop and I see everything is working OK. My possible suspicion that S3 having issues proved to be true as I read this on TechMeme. It is impressive how S3 can scale the infrastructure right from static content on S3 to dynamic device/application configuration and launch (EC2).
Number of startup companies moving their infrastructure to S3 has grown rapidly over the period of time and it is growing more. Small downtime might create a pinch to all these startups (including us at MessageDance) but peace and scalability you get with Amazon’s infrastructure can not be beaten.
Robert Scoble wrote an interesting post today about his interview with Jeff Barr (Evangelist for Amazon Web services).
In his article Robert mentioned that “Because he’s asking enterprises to do something pretty darn revolutionary: turn off their data centers.” Thats impressive statement to make. Going back to today’s event of S3 downtime and Amazon going full throttle on pushing all these companies towards Amazon web services with bold statements like above, could this downtime be another trick from Amazon to shake people up?.
Google is missing out on big thing here as they are the one of the companies who can do this very well what Amazon is doing for infrastructure scaling.