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Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#91
post #44

I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s

Isn't that a design flaw in Heroku? Shouldn't you be able to log into Heroku and change stuff like that even if the entire of Amazons cloud service is down?

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#92
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, it's a bomb scare and the building's shutdown for 12 hours. How I was supposed to get ' "relying", as in "depending on the cloud without any alternative backup" ' from what your originally wrote, I don't know.

I'm sorry if you didn't understand "relying" as I meant it. I'm not a native speaker, so my assumption of the meaning of "relying" may have been wrong. I'll try to elaborate: yes, there are of course certain things that you cannot avoid. That's why I meant you should not "rely"/"depend on the cloud without any alternative backup" on the cloud being available. Redundancy, if your service is crucial! If you're a small…

You said 6 words in your original post. And now you're trying to suggest I was to get the above 166 words from the original 6?

You raise perfectly valid and interesting points. It's just a shame they're not the parent comment because then they would have invoked some thoughtful discussion.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#93
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully, no. :) But yeah, right now we're shutting everything down to try and avoid possible data corruption. Once they restore service, hopefully we'll be able to come back quickly.

SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. Good plan though. :p

President Madagascar is doin' cloud biz, too?

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#94
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully, no. :) But yeah, right now we're shutting everything down to try and avoid possible data corruption. Once they restore service, hopefully we'll be able to come back quickly.

SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. Good plan though. :p

My original comment was "We're going Madagascar on the servers." Then I remembered I was on HN, not reddit. :)

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#96
post #85

It's really mostly EBS failures, so the title is overly dramatic. And EBS has been known to have issues.

This is incorrect. EBS is part of the issue, as well as intermittent connectivity failures for EC2 instances.

We're also seeing connectivity issues with our elastic load balancers.

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#97
post #55
post #46

4/21/2011 is "Judgement Day" when Skynet becomes self aware and tries to kill us all. http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/2011/04/21 I am just a little freaked out right now.

Don't worry. If skynet is in EC2, we'll be fine.

You don't understand, Skynet is using all Amazon resources, hence the outages ;-)

Amazon have stated many times that amazon.com itself runs mostly on AWS platform, but it works fine now ...

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#98
post #2

Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.

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Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#99
post #44

I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s

Isn't that a design flaw in Heroku? Shouldn't you be able to log into Heroku and change stuff like that even if the entire of Amazons cloud service is down?

> Nothing special-case here: we deploy with git push, just like any other Heroku user. Dogfooding is good for you. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/4/1/fork_our_docs/

Re: Amazon Web Services are down

#100
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry if you didn't understand "relying" as I meant it. I'm not a native speaker, so my assumption of the meaning of "relying" may have been wrong. I'll try to elaborate: yes, there are of course certain things that you cannot avoid. That's why I meant you should not "rely"/"depend on the cloud without any alternative backup" on the cloud being available. Redundancy, if your service is crucial! If you're a small…

You said 6 words in your original post. And now you're trying to suggest I was to get the above 166 words from the original 6? You raise perfectly valid and interesting points. It's just a shame they're not the parent comment because then they would have invoked some thoughtful discussion.

It's a shame your sarcastic reply derailed the conversation.
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