AWS West Outage (US-WEST-2 region)

Seems to have hit pagerduty pretty hard... your poor on-call guy may have no idea his app is busted.

Everything is closed.

Direct connect: October 18, 2017 at 4:37:09 PM UTC-5

Internet connectivity: October 18, 2017 at 4:33:29 PM UTC-5

EC2 VPC network health: October 18, 2017 at 4:13:00 PM UTC-5

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Personal Health Dashboard seems like its being udpated faster.

https://phd.aws.amazon.com/

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Opened at: October 18, 2017 at 4:10:19 PM UTC-5

DirectConnect operational issue

02:10 PM PDT We are investigating network connectivity issues affecting Direct Connect customers using the US-WEST-2 Region.

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Opened at: October 18, 2017 at 3:59:42 PM UTC-5

Network Connectivity

01:59 PM PDT We are investigating Network Connectivity issues in the US-WEST-2 Region.

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Opened at: October 18, 2017 at 3:59:00 PM UTC-5

EC2 VPC network health internet issue

Beginning at Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:59:00 GMT, some instances are experiencing elevated packet loss between the us-west-2a Availability Zone and the Internet. We are now investigating this issue.

I just noticed Stripe's API returning intermittent 500 errors for the first time in forever. Now I know why! =)

and pay double? no way

Hardware will always fail at some point. You can either add extra resources elsewhere, or deal with that inevitable downtime. Both are reasonable, depending on the impact of downtime.