Objecting to storage

About this episode

The episode reviews the 2017 Amazon S3 outage and its implications.

Thank you NoPorts for sponsoring https://fafo.fm/noports If the Internet is a big computer, Amazon s3 is the hard drive. So what happens when a single typo breaks the Internet's hard drive? On this episode of Fork Around and Find Out we review the s3 outage from 2017. It wasn't that long ago and yet it seems everyone has forgotten. Please leave a review Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcast addict Pocketcasts Amazon Music Send us an email to let us know what you thought of this episode Email your feedback The music was provided by Dave Eddy Sponsor FAFOFM at https://fafo.fm/sponsor Individual donations are appreciated at https://ko-fi.com/fafofm

People in this episode

Hosts: Justin Garrison, Autumn Nash

Topics covered

• cloud storage
• internet outages
• Amazon S3
• technology
• data management

Keywords

• Amazon S3
• outage
• cloud storage
• internet
• data loss

Sponsors

NoPorts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon s3

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