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Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by sdepablos »

stephank wrote: post #10
amock wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Availability zones are different for different accounts, so for me it's eu-west-1b. You can log into the console and under the EC2 tab it will show you the status of each of your availability zones.

Ah, good to know, thanks for the pointer. Another update on the status page, btw. It appears to be a power failure.

I've tried to create a machine in another zone with no success. I suppose there's a lot of people doing the same :(

Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by jread »

I run a site that monitors over 100 different cloud services. Our monitoring node in EC2 EU West went down at 10:48:51 PDT. Our monitored application with PHP PaaS cloudControl, also hosted in EC2 EU West, went down at the same time. For the past year, we've gotten 99.978% availability in this EC2 region: http://cloudharmony.com/status

Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by bambax »

THANK YOU HN!!! I couldn't connect to my machine and couldn't understand what was going on... good thing I turn to HN as soon as I get online...

You'd think AWS could afford to send emails to keep us customers up to date with the problem?

Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by bradly »

jimmyjim wrote: post #15

Power outage? Interesting -- Linode also went down today because of power outage: http://status.linode.com/2011/08/outage-in-fremont-facility....

Is there any chance these power failures have something to do with the solar storms we are experiencing right now?

Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by techiferous »

bradly wrote: post #17
jimmyjim wrote: post #15

Power outage? Interesting -- Linode also went down today because of power outage: http://status.linode.com/2011/08/outage-in-fremont-facility....

Is there any chance these power failures have something to do with the solar storms we are experiencing right now?

They have subsided. Note the K-index on this page: http://spaceweather.com

Re: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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Post by rwolf »

bambax wrote: post #16

THANK YOU HN!!! I couldn't connect to my machine and couldn't understand what was going on... good thing I turn to HN as soon as I get online... You'd think AWS could afford to send emails to keep us customers up to date with the problem?

If they sent you an email every time there was downtime, then you would know every time there was downtime. Any time your servers are not available but you don't notice == win.
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