I was thinking the same thing... but if your proxy goes down, couldn't you updat...

exclusiv on March 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy

I was thinking the same thing... but if your proxy goes down, couldn't you update code quickly at the app level to go direct to S3 then?

Whereas - if you just rely on S3 directly, if they have problems, there's not much you can do unless you also have all assets locally on your servers.

mattrobenolt on March 2, 2017 [–]

We do this automatically already with HAProxy. So we don't even have to change our application.