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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

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Post by res0nat0r »

driverdan wrote: post #8
ojiikun wrote: post #4

Per the linked dashboard, some instances in a single AZ in a single Region are having storage issues. Calling EC2 "down" is a bit dramatic, provided AMZN are being sincere with their status reports. Any system that can competently fail over to another AZ will be unaffected.

Amazon is downplaying the problem. It is affecting many large sites.

Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.

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

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

trimbo wrote: post #12
orourkek wrote: 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.

Note that the region-1[a b c d & such] designations are randomized per account; my us-east-1d won't (necessarily) be the same as yours or anyone else's.

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

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Post by enjo »

evan_ wrote: post #14
thomaslutz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

All my instances across 3 zones are functioning normally.

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

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Post by jmvoodoo »

All of our EC2 hosts appear to be functioning fine, but they can't connect to their RDS instance which renders our app useless. If you scroll down the page you'll also see that RDS instances are having connectivity issues. Not sure if it's related but for RDS users the impact is far worse.

EDIT: We are also using multi-AZ RDS, so either Amazon's claims for multi-AZ are bs, or their claims that this is only impacting a single zone is bs.

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