IT Blogwatch – It’s IT Blogwatch: in which Amazon’s “three-nines-reliable” S3 service was down for EIGHT HOURS, Sunday. Not to mention more Error’d…

Here’s Howard Dahdah frahm dahnahdah: A systems failure at Amazon’s S3 hosted storage service this morning has affected a host of Web 2.0 applications such as Twitter and SmugMug, which are dependent on it for the delivery of their applications. At 9:05AM PDT on Sunday (AEST 2.05 AM Monday) Amazon issued an outage report, claiming it was experiencing “elevated error rates with S3” ... At 5:12 PM PDT (10.12 AM AEST) the S3 site was restored.

A variety of businesses such as Twitter, digital photo sharing Web site, SmugMug and The Huffington Post all [...] read more

Data Center Knowledge – Microsofts James Hamilton has been collecting scaling stories for a while, and has shared a list of resources providing insider accounts of how the Web’s largest sites have managed their scalability challenges. The post focuses on Flickrs database architecture, but also provides links to similar [...] read more

The Security and Compliance Connection Blog – Could it be that the same oversight protections that were put in place to ensure consumer and shareholder protection are actually creating a higher degree of security risk? A closer examination of the issue may lead you to believe that [...] read more