Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by dholowiski » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 7:59 PM UTC

Thanks to the Amazon AWS Outage today, I missed the chance to have a QR code generated by my app displayed in an ad in a major newspaper. My Heroku hosted app (I have several) is still down. My other app was experiencing a huge traffic (30X usual) right when the outage happened.

Both apps are just fun toys, but it hurts for them to be down at such a critical time.

How has the outage affected you?

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Post by abraham » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:12 PM UTC

I wasn't able to view a Foursquare checking for a little while and I've had significant amounts of my morning news be related to AWS, the cloud, downtime, etc.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by api » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:31 PM UTC

Reddit is down, so I got more work done today.

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Post by zacharypinter » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:35 PM UTC

My team's single sign on prototype was deployed to heroku so that we could develop our apps against it (Android, iPhone, WP7, jQuery Mobile). It would have stalled development, but with a bit of tweaking I was able to get the prototype deployed to cloudfoundry and everything continued as planned.

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Post by ascendant » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

The company I work for offers a small hosted document management SaaS solution that uses Amazon as the hosted environment, so we've been having issues related to (surprise surprise) EBS.

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Post by haploid » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

Strangely enough, not at all. We have a few ec2 instances running in the us-east region, allegedly the region that was supposed to be affected. They have been up and available all day, without issues of any kind.

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Post by garyrichardson » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:47 PM UTC

api wrote: post #3

Reddit is down, so I got more work done today.

I didn't. I was too busy reading blog posts about the downfall of cloud computing.

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Post by colinplamondon » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

Our registration/login/download/stat servers for all our iOS apps (Free Books + Free Audiobooks + Classicly) are all hosted on Heroku, and have been completely down all day. Not good.

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#9

Post by bdclimber14 » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:57 PM UTC

I run my main startup on Heroku, so OrangeSlyce.com has been completely down all day.

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Post by venturebros » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:58 PM UTC

api wrote: post #3

Reddit is down, so I got more work done today.

I didn't! I kept taking naps and coming back to see if it was up.

Reddit actually helps me work more.