In this episode of Brainwaves, we discuss the recent Amazon S3 outage and consider what it might -- and might not -- imply about cloud storage in general. www.vividcortex.com Related Links: -S3 Outage Postmortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ - Timeline of AWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services - S3 Status: https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/s3-us-standard.rss - Ars Technica Breakdown of the Event: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/amazon-s3-problem-caused-by-command-line-mistake-during-maintenance/ - Preetam’s Misframe blog post about S3: https://misfra.me/2017/02/10/s3-is-not-just-for-backups/ - 2015 S3 Outage Info: https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://blog.status.io/2015/08/10/post-mortem-s3/&source=gmail&ust=1489155207972000&usg=AFQjCNGOfSzyPBN1__KiKXdYuF_I37Tvvw - Pakistan - YouTube Incident: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/pakistans-accid/ -Google Whitepaper on Hard Drive Failure: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf - Netflix Talk at AWS Re:Invent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o52vMQ4Ey9I