Amazon S3 cloud faces trouble

Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which has been used by thousands of companies went down on yesterday's morning and was proclaiming high error rates according to different news sources.

Over 330,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services and the technical problem has affected The New York Times to store and deliver articles from its archives.

“For one of our services, the Amazon Simple Storage Service, one of our three geographic locations was unreachable for approximately two hours and was back to operating at over 99% of normal performance before 7 a.m. pacific standard time. We’ve been operating this service for two years and we’re proud of our uptime track record. Any amount of downtime is unacceptable and we won’t be satisfied until it’s perfect. We’ve been communicating with our customers all morning via our support forums and will be providing additional information as soon as we have it.” said, Amazon's spokesman.

Have this hurt Amazon? It is the first problem for S3 and in my opinion they have fixed the problem in time and still, trying to communicate with their customers. I believe it won't get down again but if it proves to be a continuing problem then Amazon will be in trouble.