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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by adwf on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @07:26AM (#13763138)
That isn't just a Google issue though. You'd have had the exact same trouble with AWS/RDS if you're running with no replica. The lack of filesystem access is a security "feature" for both. If you have no HA setup then you have no recourse but to restore to a new server from backup, or wait for your cloud provider to fix it.
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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by avereveard on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:53AM (#13764052)
RDS has snapshot backups you can create an instance from iirc so you can self fix this kind of issues.

Sure you get downtime all the same but not the waiting for support to solve an instance crash part

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by unclebucknasty on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:45AM (#13764581)
Yes, and RDS offers point in time recovery at that.

We've had to use it and can confirm that it works as advertised.

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