Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#1

Post by cornellwright » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:50 AM UTC

We're having lots of trouble getting to many AWS/Amazon resources in US-West2 and it seems like many other people are reporting problems with US-East. Currently we cannot even reach http://status.aws.amazon.com. What are other people seeing and does anyone have any pointers to what the problem could be? There seems to also be a bit of discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/aws?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets#

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#2

Post by mondoshawan » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:52 AM UTC

Looks to be something strange with the network. Using a SOCKS proxy to a host running on he.net, I can get to US-East machines, but not from my Cogent-based connection in the office.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#3

Post by cornellwright » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:54 AM UTC

mondoshawan wrote: post #2

Looks to be something strange with the network. Using a SOCKS proxy to a host running on he.net, I can get to US-East machines, but not from my Cogent-based connection in the office.

Yeah, that's what we're seeing. We can finally get to US-West2 again from our office. Employees who were working from home didn't experience an outage at all.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#4

Post by danieljurek » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:57 AM UTC

I can't get the status page to load: http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Edit: Scratch that. Some stuff I'm hosting in AWS East is still working. Maybe someone screwed up router configs on the west coast.

Edit: Rollback the scratch. It's oscillating between up and down right now.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#5

Post by fuziontech » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:57 AM UTC

I'm able to tunnel into ec2 over our VPC and get to most things that are down like slack and netflix. Amazon.com is still unreachable

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#6

Post by jstratr » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 12:58 AM UTC

I can reach http://status.aws.amazon.com/ from my home Comcast connection in SF. The status page is showing green for all services.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#7

Post by kirk21 » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:00 AM UTC

Nope. A ton of websites don't work.(even amazon.com)

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#8

Post by bks » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:07 AM UTC

I run a spam filtering company in AWS-Oregon and we are under a DDoS that is directed to some of our financial services clients...We know that our client is the target because the Russian team claims responsibility opened up a trouble ticket with us (not hosted in AWS) about 2 hours ago to let us know that they would DDoS us and the network.

I am sure it's just a coincidence :-)

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#9

Post by _jomo » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:08 AM UTC

There's another post on HN:

"EC2 us-east is down" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809304

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#10

Post by colinbartlett » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:15 AM UTC

I often find out about these sorts of global internet issues early because of a little project of mine:

https://statusgator.io

It just monitors the status pages of lots of different services. When I get 30 notices from various unrelated services at once all with comments like "Network connectivity issues", I know some kind of routing issue is plaguing the 'net.