Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Why S3 failed

February 16, 2008 Late last night, Amazon issued a statement explaining the cause of the problem that hobbled its S3 storage system yesterday morning. It was not a hardware failure. Rather, the service's authentication system, which verifies the identity of a user, became overloaded with user requests. As one person explained to me, it amounted to a kind of accidental DDoS (distributed denial of s

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Amazon S3のダウンの原因は認証機能へのアクセス過多

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The problem revealed some flaws in Amazon's otherwise highly reliable system, including shortcomings in its communications with users, and the company will make important improvements as a result, to the benefit of all its customers.

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やけに信頼できそうな Nicholas Carr