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Amazon's S3 Web-storage service, favored by startups too poor to afford their own hard drives or too technically inept to set them up, went down for about two hours earlier today, slowing down graphics on services like Twitter and Tumblr, SAI reports. "Not a big deal," Tumblr founder David Karp told us. "A reminder for a lot of services that redundancy beyond Amazon is still necessary," he said. Maybe not for you, David. But I'm lost without my morning dose of Nevver.
Amazon S3 goes down, taking twitterati with it
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11:20 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Single 2point0 of failure.
Do they think they could keep it down a bit longer then? We could do without most of those startups.
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