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Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

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Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

#11
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It's degraded performance for some EBS volumes in a single availability zone - isn't this title a bit sensationalistic?

No. Amazon just understates the issues. Reddit, Heroku etc. all have problems.

Even if they do understate the issue, It's limited to US-EAST 1, and is an EBS issue. Saying that EC2 is "down" because of this is totally off the mark - I've got dozens of EBS volmes in EAST 1 that are unaffected, plus all of the other zones that are operating normally...

Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

#12
post #3

It's degraded performance for some EBS volumes in a single availability zone - isn't this title a bit sensationalistic?

From what I'm seeing, if your root disk is on EBS and your SSH keys are there, you cannot SSH into those hosts right now.

Also, the availability zones are disparate in terms of what they can support. A great number of my instances are in 1d because of unavailability in others.

Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

#14
post #3

It's degraded performance for some EBS volumes in a single availability zone - isn't this title a bit sensationalistic?

No. Amazon just understates the issues. Reddit, Heroku etc. all have problems.

EC2 is not down. My EC2 sites are all functioning.

Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

#18
post #12
post #3

It's degraded performance for some EBS volumes in a single availability zone - isn't this title a bit sensationalistic?

From what I'm seeing, if your root disk is on EBS and your SSH keys are there, you cannot SSH into those hosts right now. Also, the availability zones are disparate in terms of what they can support. A great number of my instances are in 1d because of unavailability in others.

If you're relying on individual servers to have drives which never fail you're doing reliability wrong.

Re: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Amazon just understates the issues. Reddit, Heroku etc. all have problems.

Even if they do understate the issue, It's limited to US-EAST 1, and is an EBS issue. Saying that EC2 is "down" because of this is totally off the mark - I've got dozens of EBS volmes in EAST 1 that are unaffected, plus all of the other zones that are operating normally...

EC2 instances are affected by the EBS issues. But you're right, it's not correct that EC2 is "down".
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