AWS us-east-2 outage • Hacker News Board

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by bradyd » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

MikeMacMan wrote: post #15

I'm seeing issues in 2a but not 2b. Anyone having issues in 2b?

Availability zones are not guaranteed to have the same name across accounts (ie. us-east-2a in one account might be us-east-2d in another). You would need to use the AZ-ID to determine if they are the same.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by bigfatfrock » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

Suppose it's time to setup multi-az and pay to insure against AWS' own failures. I don't know why I previously thought their EC2 uptime claims were sufficient. Lesson learned.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by silverlyra » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

MikeMacMan wrote: post #15

I'm seeing issues in 2a but not 2b. Anyone having issues in 2b?

AWS availability zones are randomly shuffled for each AWS account – your us-east-2a won't (necessarily) be the same as another user's (or even another account in the same organization): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

You'll need to see which availability zone ID (e.g., use2-az3) corresponds to each zone in your account: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/vpc-m...

edit: AWS identified this as a power loss in a single zone, use2-az1.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by jmartens » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

Anyone else notice similar issues in US-West-2 a few hours before this issue in US-East-2?

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by collinvandyck76 » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

svnpenn wrote: post #25

kaustubhvp wrote: post #17

Looks like a lot of services are impacted including Cloudflare, Ping, Zoom and Datadog.

Looks like Snap, Crackle and Pop are down as well.

Hah, frequency illusion strikes again? I just learned about the derivatives past Jerk yesterday.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by NightMKoder » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

MikeMacMan wrote: post #15

I'm seeing issues in 2a but not 2b. Anyone having issues in 2b?

AWS availability zones (so like us-west-2b rather than us-west-2) are not the same between accounts. us-west-2b for you is something different than us-west-2b for everyone else.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by CoastalCoder » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

svnpenn wrote: post #25

kaustubhvp wrote: post #17

Looks like a lot of services are impacted including Cloudflare, Ping, Zoom and Datadog.

Looks like Snap, Crackle and Pop are down as well.

> Looks like Snap, Crackle and Pop are down as well.

I don't work on cloud stuff, so I'm genuinely unsure if this is a joke.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by allenrb » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

kaustubhvp wrote: post #8

AWS acknowledged the issue https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

[10:25 AM PDT] We can confirm that some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of power. The loss of power is affecting part of a single data center within the affected Availability Zone. Power has been restored to the affected facility and at this stage the majority of the affected EC2 instances have recovered. We expect to recover the vast majority of EC2 instances within the next hour. For customers that need immediate recovery, we recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone as other Availability Zones are not affected by this issue.

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by bluedino » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #30

Wonder if this is why Zoom is down. Wasn't able to connect just now. The connection proxy/sites were giving 504s.

WebEx too

Re: AWS us-east-2 outage

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Post by Syonyk » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

corobo wrote: post #9

Ahh Always check HN before trying to diagnose weird issues that shouldn't be connected

And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly working."