AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services

Post by antaviana » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

mdnormy wrote: post #10

I hate the fact that most people(including me apparently) still assume AWS is not in their "downtime" equation. Just spend the last 30min troubleshooting SMTP auth problem. Not funny when its Sunday.

Post by grhmc » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 1:18 PM UTC

janson0 wrote: post #21

oliverfriedmann wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure. I think many of the other services mentioned probably rely internally on SQS, so resolving the SQS issues might resolve most of the other issues as well. Not completely sure though whether DynamoDB would benefit from relying internally on SQS.

Yeah good point. It's something I forget sometimes that AWS uses AWS... and that even if I don't rely on a particular service specifically, a service I rely on may, in fact, rely on that service. Hopefully there is a relatively fast recovery on this. Can anyone even log into their aws console right now?

Post by rue » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

nasalgoat wrote: post #8

This seems like another reason to not rely on Amazon-specific services, other than the obvious vendor lock-in. At least in the event of an instance outage you could conceivably migrate off Amazon to another VPS provider. No one using DynamoDB has an alternative.

Post by neals » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

JOnAgain wrote: post #25

Le sigh. This is impacting AirBnB and I need to check in somewhere in LA later today. Good thing all the details are in the AirBnB messaging history with the host. Time for them to just go back to email.

Post by divideby0 » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 1:23 PM UTC

drendorx39 wrote: post #11

airza wrote: post #3

well, time to find out who has failure tolerance built in to the architecture 8^)

failure tolerance is an alien technology for amazon...