Don't worry, it's not just you. The internet on the East Coast is unbearable right now, and you can blame Amazon. On Tuesday afternoon, you probably noticed images and video were slow to load on some ...

The Amazon S3 outage lasted from around 10 am to 2 pm PST, affecting websites like Quora, Business Insider, Instagram, Slack and Giphy. In an ironic twist, Amazon wasn't able to update its own service ...

To help reduce the chance of AWS S3 configuration errors, Amazon is working on two new tools – Zelkova and Tiros – to provide greater clarity around who has access to your data and resources and what ...

An issue with S3 cloud storage at Amazon's massive datacenter region in Northern Virginia on Tuesday caused problems for several AWS customers. After several hours, AWS said Tuesday afternoon that the ...

Amazon S3 underpins many AWS services, including AWS Lambda, Elastic BeanStalk, and Amazon’s own Service Health Dashboard. It also serves as an object and media store for many other internet services ...

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Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular websites and services. That’s apparently what happened ...

AWS took a lot of heat when its S3 storage component went down for several hours on Tuesday, and rightly so, but today they published a post-mortem explaining exactly what happened complete with ...

AWS’ S3 storage service today launched a cheaper option for keeping data in the cloud — as long as developers are willing to give up a few 9s of availability in return for saving up to 20 percent ...