Actually, i was surprised to find i wasn't affected by it at all. Apparently everything i use either knows what they're doing or wasn't in the us-east-1 region.
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#12My hastily thrown together article on how to work around EC2 outages got to #8 on HN and received ~2000 reads
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#13I manage four EC2s all with EBS and located on the east coast; luckily haven't had any issues.
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#14I am running my phone processing/tracking app on EC2 so it's been up and down all morning. The fall back also has some dependencies on S3 so it has been a bad day.
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#15I run my main startup on Heroku, so OrangeSlyce.com has been completely down all day.
Might as well get some good out of it.... please describe what your service is.
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#16I provide media streaming services via EC2 to a few customers - basically all of the non-live streams are unavailable.
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#17Our database (RDS) is completely inaccessible -- so our website has been down since 2am or so, showing our maintenance page. It's backed up -- but we have no way to download the most recent backup and move to another server. We tried rebooting our db about 11 hours ago -- and it's been stuck in reboot mode ever since. We tried creating a copy from a recent backup -- but it's stuck in boot mode. We can't move the snapshot to the West Coast farm, so we're really pretty blocked until Amazon gets things in order.
A lot of people on the boards suggested Amazon make the automatic backups of RDS available for download for instances like these. Having a backup is great, but not if you can't access them in an emergency.
On the message boards, someone said that they had selected to have RDS automatically keep a copy in multiple availability zones -- and they said that worked for them. I'm not sure however, since a top post on HN is saying that all of the Virginia zones were effected -- so your mileage may vary.
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#18No effect at all that I've noticed. Tarsnap doesn't use EBS.
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#19Actually, i was surprised to find i wasn't affected by it at all. Apparently everything i use either knows what they're doing or wasn't in the us-east-1 region.
Ditto, we're just in the process of moving to EC2, and were happy to find our staging environment (the only thing moved over so far) is happily healthy (of course it gets minimal load).
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#20Reddit is down, so I got more work done today.
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