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Re:Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy by asher_ on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:46PM (#13770993)
There have been a lot of articles and suggestions for mitigating S3's single-region architecture (design flaw?) since the outage.

One solution that I haven't seen much of is to just use a service that gives you multi-region without any extra work, such as https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#multi-...

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Re:Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy by mattrobenolt on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:12PM (#13771345)
This doesn't solve our performance issues that I originally set out to address.
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Re:Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy by cavisne on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:23PM (#13771402)
The problem with solutions like these is you see global outages, like googles global VM outage last year.

Also from the public description this sounds like one big system, ie the second "region" may not be a public Google Cloud region. Just as much chance of an outage,

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