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AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

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Re: AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

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Post by mathieuh »

ihaveajob wrote: post #8
ihaveajob wrote: post #3

Copy that. Happy Labor Day weekend everyone.

It's been 2 hours and they still don't have a red flag on https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Cognito went down completely a couple of months ago (started returning rate limited to every request) and despite our contacting AWS to see if there was anything going on (and their confirming that there was) they never updated the status page. The way we got updates was by calling our AWS contact.

Re: AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

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Post by rvz »

Well, this outage says something about the companies that religiously depend on it.

If your entire service just went down as soon as this happened, Congratulations! You didn't deploy in multiple regions or think about a failsafe/fallback option that redirects from your affected service or instance.

Re: AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

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Post by doiwin »

riffic wrote: post #11

>We are investigating connectivity issues affecting some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. Well there’s your problem, people. Use multiple AZs.

Easier said then done if that would mean synchronizing database and filesystem that is heavily written to.

Re: AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

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Post by bdcravens »

nemothekid wrote: post #6

us-east-1 continues to have continually worse uptime than other regions (for, likely, good reason too, it continues to be the default region). I've avoided that region and I can't remember the last time I had downtime caused by Amazon.

Also, it is one of the regions that gets new features first, which makes me wonder if it contributes to lower stability.
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