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Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

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Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#11

Post by nirvdrum »

stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#13

Post by stevefink »

nirvdrum wrote: post #11
stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

Both my MySQL master (I'm not using RDS) and Redis Master servers are affected and are located in zone us-east-1a.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#14

Post by gabrtv »

nirvdrum wrote: post #11
stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

AFAIK zones are randomized. 1a for me is 1d for you.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#15

Post by [deleted] »

nirvdrum wrote: post #11
stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

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Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#16

Post by aaronharder »

nirvdrum wrote: post #11
stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

Unfortunately, there is no meaningful way for them to say which zone because zone labels are different for each user.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#17

Post by stevefink »

gabrtv wrote: post #14
nirvdrum wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

AFAIK zones are randomized. 1a for me is 1d for you.

That's really interesting if it's true. I had never heard this before. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#18

Post by iharris »

bad_user wrote: post #9

I got notified by Pingdom that my domain was down before AWS had any info on that status page of theirs. IMHO, they should improve on the latency of their alerts.

SNS sent me an e-mail of my instance alarms pretty quickly.

EDIT: My status checks were slow to update like the sibling comment stated, although the alarms that measure system resources triggered almost immediately when everything blew up. I think the status checks refresh at a certain interval, but those aren't really meant for real-time monitoring AFAIK.

Re: Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down

#20

Post by zedwill »

nirvdrum wrote: post #11
stevefink wrote: post #10

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.

It is affecting me on US-EAST-1B
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