Re: Data migration from ftp.mozilla.org to S3, 1pm Pacific Tuesday 20th October

Nick Thomas wrote:
> Starting today at 1pm a subset of directories will be migrated from the
> FTP server to S3 - firefox, mobile, thunderbird, and calendar. The
> window for this work is two hours long, and the trees will stay open
> (unless things go very badly). This is part of a project lead by the
> Cloud Ops group, assisted by Release Engineering .
>
> Things you should know
> * existing links to ftp.mozilla.org will continue to work, although
> archive.mozilla.org is now considered the canonical domain
> * while the data has been copied over, during the cutover the most
> recent files may not available on the new system. Synchronization will
> continue after the cutover to backfill them
> * treeherder will continue to show the results of jobs, but the logs may
> be affected by the previous point. Treeherder is designed to retrieve
> the log again when necessary
> * tests will continue to run because they use a separate storage system
> (except for mozilla-beta, mozilla-release and mozilla-esr38)
> * paths like firefox/tinderbox-builds/*/latest will stop being updated,
> and later will be removed (they were originally added for gaia-try, and
> that is now defunct)
> * in the near future directories like firefox/releases/latest/ will be
> emptied. README files with alternative options will be provided
>
> Please contact the sheriff, or #releng, if you want to bring any issues
> to our attention. bug 1211732 is tracking bug.
>
> Nick Thomas (Release Engineering)
>
What is S3?  Does that mean that the newer versions will be at some 
other address, and if so, where?