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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

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Post by its_so_on »

gouranga wrote: post #36
mikebo wrote: post #26

Worst part of this outage: paying for a multi-az RDS instance and having failover totally, completely, fail.

That sucks badly. Similar thing happened to me a while ago with a vendor. When your management team summons you to ask why the hell their site is down, you can't point fingers at the vendor if their marketing literature says it doesn't go down. Sticky situation.

If you don't host your data in several alternative dimensions so that the same events wouldn't transpire in all of them - why not assume you'll encounter the occasional outage?

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

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Post by malachismith »

jfoutz wrote: post #48
rabble wrote: post #12

Good time to consider Google's Compute Engine as an alternative? What will we call it, GCE?

currently, it is a limited beta. Also, it looks to be more expensive.

Actually, if you do the normalization to make it apples to apples (and adjust for the difference in RAM) it looks price competitive. My numbers make it look slightly more expensive than AWS EAST (teh suck) and slightly less expensive than AWS WEST.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nadahalli wrote: post #43
keithnoizu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm paying like 2,300 a month and even something basic like failover isnt working. I'm not happy.

I feel for you :-( Amazon is not cheap, and they have failed way too many times in recent memory. But the api, oh the api - it's crack, and I can't live without it.

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

[deleted] wrote: post #55
nadahalli wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel for you :-( Amazon is not cheap, and they have failed way too many times in recent memory. But the api, oh the api - it's crack, and I can't live without it.

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I suspect it's the "all the things you can do with it" part, not the format. Using the SDKs you don't see any of the underlying ugly, anyways.

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

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Post by RegEx »

nadahalli wrote: post #43
keithnoizu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm paying like 2,300 a month and even something basic like failover isnt working. I'm not happy.

I feel for you :-( Amazon is not cheap, and they have failed way too many times in recent memory. But the api, oh the api - it's crack, and I can't live without it.

I know what you mean. I have a lot of issues with AWS, but the AWS console is exactly what my manager needs so he can do things himself. Simple things such as AWS load balancing fails when we get any decent amount of traffic.

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

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Post by res0nat0r »

mikebo wrote: post #26

Worst part of this outage: paying for a multi-az RDS instance and having failover totally, completely, fail.

Did/does your standby replica in another AZ have any instance notifications stating there is a failure? The outage report claims there were just EBS problems in only one AZ.

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

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Post by werkshy »

mikebo wrote: post #26

Worst part of this outage: paying for a multi-az RDS instance and having failover totally, completely, fail.

Luckily my RDS wasn't affected, but ELB merrily sent traffic to the affected zone for 30 minutes. (Either that or part of the ELB was in the affected zone and was not removed from rotation.)

We pay a lot to stay multi-AZ and it seems Amazon keep finding ways to show us their single points of failures.

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