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SHOW HN2015

77points
30comments
#347of 2,565 in 2015
Top 14%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

0 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Execution: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

Objections

  • Error rates reported are raw percentages that are hard to interpret

    From 1 comment
    • Yeah, I got 2.53% error rate, but that's nothing to worry about - using 79 servers, that's exactly 2 errors, both of them in China, which kinda makes it feel less Amazon's fault,…
      imrehg on HN
  • Some reported errors come from network or regional filtering rather than S3

    From 2 comments
    • Yeah, I got 2.53% error rate, but that's nothing to worry about - using 79 servers, that's exactly 2 errors, both of them in China, which kinda makes it feel less Amazon's fault,…
      imrehg on HN
    • Vancouver, Tokyo, Cebu, Singapore, Bangkok, and Kharkiv all show EOF. Paris, Roubaix, Manchester, Portsmouth, Budapest, Tokyo, Bilthoven, Vleuten, Utrecht, Manila, Sovetskaya…
      scott_karana on HN

Requests

  • Better error measure than raw failure percentage

    From 1 comment
    • Yeah, I got 2.53% error rate, but that's nothing to worry about - using 79 servers, that's exactly 2 errors, both of them in China, which kinda makes it feel less Amazon's fault,…
      imrehg on HN
  • Better error message for server failures

    From 1 comment
    • You should fix that error message too, it's pretty awful.
      13 on HN

Questions

  • How to design applications to survive S3 failures

    From 2 comments
    • Is there any really way to design your application to handle S3 failures like this? S3's SLA has 99.99% availability, but is there a way to handle the 1% so your application is…
      chr15 on HN
    • Second this, I would love to hear how companies handle S3 outages. Although one correction, it's 0.01% that you need to handle (if they deliver on their availability promise).…
      ohitsdom on HN

Alternatives named

  • AWS cross-region replication

    From 1 comment
    • Cross-Region Replication http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html
      dbarlett on HN
  • Multi-cloud storage with Azure and Google Cloud

    From 2 comments
    • replicate to different data center e.g. Azure.
      lukasm on HN
    • Multi Cloud. Use S3 + Azure Cloud Files + Google Cloud Files
      merb on HN

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