Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc

and here I was thinking the change I just rolled out to our EC2 instances had boned our test environment. Two failures in a week? Does not really inspire confidence right now :(

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#6

Post by stevenp » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 3:06 AM UTC

My t1.micro instance in us-east-1b seems to be up and running just fine as far as I can tell.

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#7

Post by thechut » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 3:09 AM UTC

This may be a stretch...but anything to do with the Verizon line workers strike?

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#8

Post by scrod » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 3:17 AM UTC

LOL, the cloud.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 3:24 AM UTC

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#10

Post by fizx » Tue, Aug 09, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

It's back now.