Good time to consider Google's Compute Engine as an alternative? What will we call it, GCE?
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Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down
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#22I got notified by Pingdom that my domain was down before AWS had any info on that status page of theirs. IMHO, they should improve on the latency of their alerts.
Same here. In fact, the AWS dashboard was still showing 2/2 checks passed for some 20 minutes after Pingdom told me my site was down.
Then the AWS dashboard finally updated and told me that 3 minutes ago my instances became unreachable. That is pretty poor. AWS should be able to know right away and email me themselves.
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#23Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).
What zone? I really wish Amazon would provide that info, instead of saying that it only affects one zone.
I have instances in two different zones - both are down, although I don't know if AWS's randomization means that my 1a and 1d are actually located in the same logical zone.
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#24Goat rodeo.
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#25Interesting enough not only the EBS is down, but ELB can not register instances even if there are not EBS based and completely operational.
I have some live instances running without EBS disks that I can not place behind the ELB as it is not working.
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#26Worst part of this outage: paying for a multi-az RDS instance and having failover totally, completely, fail.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK zones are randomized. 1a for me is 1d for you.
Do you know why this is?
probably to prevent folks from all stacking up in a single AZ.
Just think if someone posted a blog post saying "I've noticed that EBS performance is far better in 1d vs. 1a"