Things to do when Amazon S3 is down
- Order coffee for your DevOps teams – via Mark Nunnikhoven
- Check out a vlog on YouTube.
- Write that blog post you've had in drafts forever.
- Can't code or deploy? Take some time to level up your marketing.
- Leave a thoughtful answer to a question on Reddit.
- Call your parents just to say "hi."
- Open up your iPhone, find "Voice Memos" and record your first podcast.
- Research some AWS competitors: Digital Ocean, Rackspace's Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze Cloud Storage, Azure.
- Meditate (for the first time?)
- Listen to an entire Black Sabbath album.
- Still on Windows XP and non-SSD storage? Time to defrag your hard drive!
- Do a local backup.
- Solve a math / computation problem at Project Euler.
- Go outside!
- Browse the Amazon store (ironically, this still works!) – via Tom
- Reacquaint yourself with all of the desktop software you left for web apps.
- Back a project on Kickstarter.
- Write a letter to your congressperson – via Justin
- Look into Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3 (if S3 goes down again, you can switch to a different region).
- Send me a text message: +1-424-247-5762
- Do your laundry – via beanland on HN
- Visit a BBS.
- Learn how to pick a lock – via Gregg
- Improve your landing page.
- Do 20 pushups. Right now. Do it.
- Generate some ASCII art and sneak it into some code.
- Create an S3 meme – via Daniel (I like this one too)
- MAKE SOME PANCAKES – via Jacob
- Watch this crazy robot video
- Declutter your workspace for a clean, fresh start – via Becca
- #deleteuber
- Wish Josh Pigford a happy birthday.
Have other ideas? Tell me on Twitter @mijustin and I'll add 'em!
Published on February 28th, 2017