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Feb 15
2008

Amazon S3: 503 error Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

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To say I'm disappointed is an understatement but Amazon S3 is currently reporting Http/1.1 Service Unavailable since 6.02 AM.  Boooo.  I've added a cfhttp call to the top of WalkJogRun.net to detect the 503 error so I can at least offer an explanation to my visitors.

<cfhttp url="http://s3.amazonaws.com/wjr/images/mile_1.png" timeout="8"></cfhttp>

<cfif not isdefined("cfhttp.statuscode") OR listFind(cfhttp.statuscode, "200"," ") neq 0>

Sorry but WalkJogRun is unavailable right now since Amazon's S3 service is down.  Our route files, images and scripts are stored up there and they have a technical issue so as a result, so do we.  I apologize for the issue and will have everything back up just as soon as they do.<br />
Thanks for your patience.<br />
Adam

<!--<cfoutput>#cfhttp.statuscode# #listFind(cfhttp.statuscode, "503"," ")#</cfoutput>-->
<cfabort>

</cfif>

 

I know all sites suffer from failures periodically but Amazon S3?  I thought the purpose was massive redundancy so that your site never goes down or your content is always available.  Hmph.  At least they are on it.

UPDATE: It's 9.04am - 3 hours after the outtage and it's back again.  Big burp appears to have taken place and cleared the airways.

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  1. This is why I prefer the term "disaster recovery" instead of "business continuity" - the former sounds more desperate!

    Whatever it was, I hope they say what it is so others can learn. Glad to hear things are back.

    mp/m

    Posted By Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron : Posted At 2/15/08 1:13 PM
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