AWS

Eariler in the month AWS went down, well, parts of it and as you might expect being the biggest of the cloud providers it caused a number of other services to go offline. And of course, it was DNS fault. Domain Name System (DNS) is the service that translates human friendly names into computer friendly numbers, IP addresses. It’s one of the fundentmental services that runs our modern digital world....

One of the annoying things about AWS S3 is the error messages. Below is an error, see if you can figure out what it’s saying. I’ll give you a hint. We’ve connected and authenticated. Here is another hint, we can read from that bucket. Give up? It’s permissions. Incorrect AWS keys returns a helpful message, so does invalid bucket, as does no access to read bucket