[Amber Bell]

I noticed some issues with someone saying they couldn’t open an attachment. I just tried another website I use and had an issue that referenced the Amazon Web Services outage.

Just thought you should all know because it will affect any screenshots or attachments on this site because they are stored on the Amazon cloud.

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Amber Bell
Training Dynamo LLC
Email: amber@trainingdynamo.com
Website: http://www.trainingdynamo.com
Twitter: @trainingdynamo
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[Kelly Hobart]

Thank you for that information Amber!  I was just about to go to IT and ask what they were doing over there!  LOL

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Kelly Hobart
Business Data Analyst
Mount Pleasant Waterworks
Mount Pleasant SC
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[Amber Bell]

Looks like everything on the GPUG site is working OK now.

🙂

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Amber Bell
Training Dynamo LLC
Email: amber@trainingdynamo.com
Website: http://www.trainingdynamo.com
Twitter: @trainingdynamo
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[Marghet Hager]

Hi! You are correct that we were effected by the Amazon Web Services outage and service was restored at 5:08 p.m. EST. You should be able to attach files now, and my apologies for any inconvenience! 

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Marghet Hager
Member Community Coordinator, GPUG
Dynamic Communities
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[Beat Bucher]

No reason for appologize Marghet, it’s not GPUG’s fault..

But this kind of incident shows how vulnerable you can be when your data is all hosted in the cloud.. imagine your operations interrupted because you can’t process any customer inquiry / order / posting anymore, for an undetermined time..
Yup, I realized too yesterday that something curious was going on as posted pictures would only shows with a small icon ‘x’ .. but wouldn’t have tought of the storage host..
Anyhow, not saying that everything ‘cloud’ is evil or bad, far from that, as this is part of today’s Internet-way-of-life, but it shows that nothing is granted 100%, despite companies trying to sell you SLA’s with 99.999% uptime.. shit can happen and then you’re sitting there, waiting on the restore of the services.. 🙂
The most frustratring part of this might be the fact that you don’t know why and how long.. At least when you have your own on-premise systems, you can figure out those facts (why ? how long ? who ?)..
Have a great ‘cloudy’ day all !!

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Beat Bucher
Business Analyst, Dynamics GP MVP
Ultra-Electronics Forensic Technology Inc.
Montreal QC/Canada
+1-514-489-4267
@GP_Beat http://dyngpbeat.wordpress.com/
Montreal QC GPUG Chapter Leader
GP2013R2 / MR2012 CU14
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[Kimberly Lomax]

It was me

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Kimberly Lomax
Manager, Financial Systems
Rayonier
Jacksonville FL
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[Marghet Hager]

Kimberly, that was my favorite post of the day! There were many quality AWS memes yesterday!

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Marghet Hager
Member Community Coordinator, GPUG
Dynamic Communities
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[Curt Bluhm]

I almost busted our laughing when I saw this pic.  Thanks Kimberly.

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Curt Bluhm
CFO
ADO Products LLC
Plymouth MN
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