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 ...

While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there. While it’s ...

As far as big data storage goes, Amazon S3 has won the war. Even among storage vendors whose initials are not A.W.S., S3 is the defacto standard for storing lots of data. But AWS isn’t resting on its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...