Location Scout Nightmare: Amazon S3 Crash - Early this morning when Jungle Disk started throwing errors, I knew something wasn’t right, it wasnt till around 10:30 things were back to normal. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot The 21st century location scout (me) relies heavily on digital and online resources for creating, organizing, presenting, backing up and archiving. I use Jungle Disk as an interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System). Amazon S3 is amazingly affordable and scalable. Well, today S3 crashed for a couple of hours. The uncertainty not knowing immediately what was going on was not fun, but I use it for location scout backups so it was not a mission critical event for me. Many high tech businesses rely on the S3 service on the fly, so the outage *was* an unacceptable situation for them. Customers Shrug Off S3 Service Failure Amazon S3 - Wikipedia

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent). Amazon launched S3, its first publicly-available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007.