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Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.
Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.
Yes, they are. :(
I think this is a good example of how the "cloud" is not a silver bullet to making your site always up. AWS provides a way to keep it up, but it is up to each developer to ensure that they are using AWS in a way to make sure their site can handle problems in one availability zone. I think we will see more of a focus from big users of AWS about focusing on how to create a redundant service using AWS. Or at least I hop…
This outage is a lot like having your entire datacenter lose power.
I think this is a good example of how the "cloud" is not a silver bullet to making your site always up. AWS provides a way to keep it up, but it is up to each developer to ensure that they are using AWS in a way to make sure their site can handle problems in one availability zone. I think we will see more of a focus from big users of AWS about focusing on how to create a redundant service using AWS. Or at least I hop…
Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.
Not all EC2 & EBS instances are down. I have several in US-east-1a and 1 is down, while all of the others are working.
It's hard to tell for sure since there isn't any load.
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Apparently most of their problems are caused by bad EBS writes/performance, or at least so they said a few weeks ago after some particularly bad downtime. It looks like EBS will randomly decide to switch to a few bps of performance from time to time. I would use Amazon for my startup, but these issues really make it hard to justify.
Slightly offtopic, but wasn't that post by an ex-employee as a comment? Not that the technical aspect of it wasn't fantastic, because it was, but I don't think Reddit said anything publically did they?
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Looks like troubles in only one availability zone.
AWS have now confirmed that this affects multiple availability zones. From the status page: "..impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region"