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Re: Amazon was down

#13

Well, AWS console being down is certainly more of an impact to me than amazon.com.

The console is working if you are already logged in. Although loggin requires going through www.amazon.com.

Re: Amazon was down

#15

Funny how there is a widely reported problem and everything is green on AWS health check site http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Just reported: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia) Increased API Error Rates

Update: AWS Management Console: Elevated error rates as of 2:15 CST

Re: Amazon was down

#17

AWS seems to be okay via this status dashboard. Nothing on the Amazon twitter feed either [2]. [1] http://status.aws.amazon.com/ [2] https://twitter.com/amazon UPDATE: Site appears to be responding now, but there is a maintenance message. AWS dashboard also shows the following updates: AWS Management Console: 12:14 PM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates for the AWS Management Console Amazon Elastic…

It's not. We're having issues with one of our EC2 instances and this is clearly effecting other sites. It's very unnerving that their service health dashboard isn't reporting any issues.

EDIT: It just now reported an issue on EC2 N. Virginia. Still a little disappointed that it's not real-time.

Re: Amazon was down

#19

Funny how there is a widely reported problem and everything is green on AWS health check site http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Just reported: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia) Increased API Error Rates Update: AWS Management Console: Elevated error rates as of 2:15 CST

Console is not the only thing faltering. Our system is not able to send any emails using SES
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