Ask HN: Can you get to AWS? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by imroot » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:46 AM UTC

I just got an email from abovenet -- apparently they had a fiber cut and they're having major routing issues affecting the san francisco area.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by colinbartlett » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:48 AM UTC

Goopplesoft wrote: post #16

colinbartlett wrote: post #10

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.

What do you use to monitor the status of the respective sites? Ping/head request to the site/api?

I actually don't monitor the status myself, I monitor the status that each service publishes. That is, whatever they report on their status page, StatusGator aggregates.

The whole thing was born after I was racking my brain trying to debug a problem, then I remembered to check status.whatever.com and realized it wasn't my problem to debug and the provider was already aware of it. I thought it would be nice to get notifications as well as aggregate that info from all the different services I use.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by mawhidby » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:00 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #22

Goopplesoft wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use to monitor the status of the respective sites? Ping/head request to the site/api?

I actually don't monitor the status myself, I monitor the status that each service publishes. That is, whatever they report on their status page, StatusGator aggregates. The whole thing was born after I was racking my brain trying to debug a problem, then I remembered to check status.whatever.com and realized it wasn't my problem to debug and the provider was already aware of it. I thought it would be nice to get not…

Cool site! Any plans to add IBM Bluemix? Their status page is at https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/support/#status

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by halayli » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:04 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #18

I've been having issues all week reaching a lot of different AWS websites including atom.io. Switching my DNS to 8.8.8.8 fixed it for me. Something is up though.

faced similar dns issues using the default name server that ec2 points to. We ended up running bind.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by mvelie » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:04 AM UTC

Looks to be because of: https://twitter.com/Axcelx/status/616058414746202113

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

#26

Post by ra1n85 » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:05 AM UTC

https://twitter.com/Axcelx/status/616058414746202113

Yuck.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by pliu » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:27 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #22

Goopplesoft wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use to monitor the status of the respective sites? Ping/head request to the site/api?

I actually don't monitor the status myself, I monitor the status that each service publishes. That is, whatever they report on their status page, StatusGator aggregates. The whole thing was born after I was racking my brain trying to debug a problem, then I remembered to check status.whatever.com and realized it wasn't my problem to debug and the provider was already aware of it. I thought it would be nice to get not…

In a situation like this, how do you know that routing to the status page is not the problem? Many of these companies use statuspage.io which is on AWS.

Edit: this is an edge case, clearly. I just think it's an interesting problem.

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by nthitz » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:27 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #10

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.

What if statusgator.io or my routing to SG goes down? :)

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by mgingras » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:30 AM UTC

clebio wrote: post #14

heavymark wrote: post #11

Yes, it's been suffering from the massive load of launching Beats1. Beats1 from Apple went down, but looks like it's back up finally.

Citation?

https://www.apple.com/ca/support/systemstatus/

Re: Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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Post by verelo » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 2:43 AM UTC

"Between 5:25 PM and 6:07 PM PDT we experienced an Internet connectivity issue with a provider outside of our network. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally. "

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

I really hate how AWS use PDT for their status page. Seriously, is there any logical reason to use anything other than UTC? I find it means when there is a report, I first need to convert the PTD time shown to UTC, then to local time just so I can know if the issue is possibly the one I experienced. Unless you're also in PDT, couldn't they just save everyone else one step by showing all service issues in UTC?