(2008-02-15) Amazon S3 Outage

Apparently Amazon S3 is down, causing breakage all over the place. This is a good thing, in that it reminds people that nothing is perfect. You can either build stuff around it, not use it at all, or accept that stuff breaks sometimes. Risk Management requires accepting reality.

Might be worth remember this about Twitter, too.

But this does raise the Monoculture vs Resilience thing.

One of the great things about a Stupid Network is that new arrangements can be designed and implemented without permission from a Central Scrutinizer.