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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 grumps »

aioprisan wrote: post #115
grumps wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, starting to believe the Amazon is quickly becoming public enemy #2.

and who is #1?

Completely depends on the day, for myself. IMHO: I sum it all up as "Digital Rights."

-The right to not have your traffic limited, and controlled by ISP

-The right to purchase a non DRM "file" and use it on your phone, computer, etc free of burned from some company

-Ability to install what ever you want on your $600+ device

*Edit for: formatting, and additional thought.

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

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Post by peterwwillis »

acangiano wrote: post #40
diego wrote: post #31

The N. Virginia datacenter has been historically unreliable. I moved my personal projects to the West Coast (Oregon and N. California) and I have seen no significant issues in the past year. N. Virginia is both cheaper and closer to the center of mass of the developed world. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't managed to make it more reliable.

Realistically, it's at least in part because everyone defaults to the East region. So it's the most crowded and demanding on the system.

It's not just because it's crowded. Everyone I know who's worked in that DC hated it. Aside from that, storms regularly knock out the grid in NoVa.

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

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Post by jedberg »

benwerd wrote: post #30

This would be a great time to post a guide to architecting systems for failover using AWS. Anyone got a great guide?

We (Netflix) have done a bunch of presentations on it which are on our slideshare page and across the internet.

After this issue is over I can give a longer answer. In short, we've just evacuated the affected zone and are mostly recovered.

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

run4yourlives wrote: post #87

Heh, the cynical side of me would like to point out that this is a great way to get people to stop talking about wiping a user's kindle. :-)

Well if that was their goal then it has been a success as they have taken out a lot of the forums and discussion sites which were critical of them.

Except HN.

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

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Post by g3orge »

diego wrote: post #31

The N. Virginia datacenter has been historically unreliable. I moved my personal projects to the West Coast (Oregon and N. California) and I have seen no significant issues in the past year. N. Virginia is both cheaper and closer to the center of mass of the developed world. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't managed to make it more reliable.

You can move your projects on demand?

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

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Post by peterwwillis »

notatoad wrote: post #114
diego wrote: post #31

The N. Virginia datacenter has been historically unreliable. I moved my personal projects to the West Coast (Oregon and N. California) and I have seen no significant issues in the past year. N. Virginia is both cheaper and closer to the center of mass of the developed world. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't managed to make it more reliable.

I'm surprised amazon hasn't built another region in the east. If you're in the west you get US-West-1 and US-West-2 and can failover and distribute between the two, why don't they have that kind of duplication in the east?

They already expanded into a DC in Chantilly, one more in Ashburn and I believe one in Manassas. But they lean on Ashburn for everything they do, and a small problem results in a daisy-chain failure (which because everyone uses Amazon for every service imaginable, means even the smallest problem takes down whole websites)

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Post by farinasa »

IheartApplesDix wrote: post #118
run4yourlives wrote: post #87

Heh, the cynical side of me would like to point out that this is a great way to get people to stop talking about wiping a user's kindle. :-)

Because reddit and ycombinator are the center of the tech sociosphere?

For the less specialized groups, kind of, yeah.
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