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Friday, February 15, 2008

Twitter and Amazon

Profile pictures were offline for 2-3 minutes very early in the morning US time. The outage was related to a service interruption at Amazon Web Services which Twitter uses to host profile images.

Amazon has a goal of 99.9% uptime with this service. This translates to 45 minutes per month of expected downtime. Achieving 99.9% uptime is a significant challenge—but worth striving towards!

4 Comments:

OpenID sminkybang.com said...

2-3 "minutes"? Felt like hours to me...

2/15/08 10:50 AM  
Blogger Marc said...

I would agree..That was a little longer than 2-3 minutes.

2/15/08 6:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

we don't really go for Amazon at solarskate. Our whole goal is to free up the web. I don't think Amazon likes the web being free or fully funcional.

2/17/08 4:30 PM  
Anonymous Wendelmaques said...

Where Twitter stores the texts of posts??? It uses a database or S3?
I'm curious, :)

2/21/08 4:20 AM  

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