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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by qeternity on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:55PM (#13757245)
EDIT: Misread parent.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by dsl on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:58PM (#13757266)
Because your status page shouldn't depend on your own infrastructure. Literally the problem Amazon is having right now.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by chinhodado on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:58PM (#13757274)
I guess they don't want to host their status page on their own CDN in case it went down too.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by devy on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:41PM (#13757616)
But only the logo image hosted on S3 is broken though. It seems to be preventable if they host the logo image together with their status page.
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