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its amazon having problems. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ https://status.aws.amazon.com/

by itake 9y ago

kkirsche 9y ago
Northern VA is having a ton of power outages due to high winds. NOVEC electric company is reporting power issues for almost 10% of customers so far
- cimmanom 9y ago
  You would think Amazon would have sufficient backup power to make that a non-issue, as would any significant third party data centers involved in routing data. However, a downed data line might make sense as a root cause.
thegeomaster 9y ago
And it's only one AZ, so it sounds like Atlassian services aren't spread out over AWS properly. The recent S3 incident really highlighted the importance of this.
- bklyn11201 9y ago
  Amazon's description of S3: "Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical facilities that are geographically separated within an AWS Region". What are people doing wrong with how they use S3? Until AWS provides a cross-region S3 that is master-master or self-healing, the suggestion that people are using AWS improperly seems incorrect.
acdha 9y ago
That’s currently showing an issue with Direct Connect in northern Virginia. That seems like a bit of a stretch and it certainly wouldn’t say anything good about their DR planning if one region can take the whole thing down.
colinbartlett 9y ago
There are actually quite a lot of services down across the web now. Maybe they are unrelated... but it could all be related to AWS. https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services My side project, StatusGator, monitors something like 250 status pages and there's quite a spike in warn or down notices at the moment that I can see.
- edaemon 9y ago
  StatusGator is neat, thanks for linking that. Do you have graphs anywhere to track the number of outages/problems over time? It would be nice to see if there's been an uptick in problems generally, across certain services, etc.
  - colinbartlett 9y ago
    No, but that's a great idea! I have 3 years of data now from hundreds of services including severity of reported outage and text about why it went down. So I could show graphs over time for sure.
shoover 9y ago
Ah. I wonder if that's why Capital One's login is down. I'm a little surprised their app isn't more resilient, but this is the second multi-hour outage I've noticed in the past couple months.

its amazon having problems. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ https://status.aws.amazon.com/

by itake 9y ago

its amazon having problems. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Northern VA is having a ton of power outages due to high winds. NOVEC electric company is reporting power issues for almost 10% of customers so far

cimmanom 9y ago
You would think Amazon would have sufficient backup power to make that a non-issue, as would any significant third party data centers involved in routing data. However, a downed data line might make sense as a root cause.

thegeomaster 9y ago

And it's only one AZ, so it sounds like Atlassian services aren't spread out over AWS properly. The recent S3 incident really highlighted the importance of this.

bklyn11201 9y ago
Amazon's description of S3: "Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical facilities that are geographically separated within an AWS Region". What are people doing wrong with how they use S3? Until AWS provides a cross-region S3 that is master-master or self-healing, the suggestion that people are using AWS improperly seems incorrect.

acdha 9y ago

That’s currently showing an issue with Direct Connect in northern Virginia. That seems like a bit of a stretch and it certainly wouldn’t say anything good about their DR planning if one region can take the whole thing down.

colinbartlett 9y ago

There are actually quite a lot of services down across the web now. Maybe they are unrelated... but it could all be related to AWS. https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services My side project, StatusGator, monitors something like 250 status pages and there's quite a spike in warn or down notices at the moment that I can see.

edaemon 9y ago
StatusGator is neat, thanks for linking that. Do you have graphs anywhere to track the number of outages/problems over time? It would be nice to see if there's been an uptick in problems generally, across certain services, etc.
- colinbartlett 9y ago
  No, but that's a great idea! I have 3 years of data now from hundreds of services including severity of reported outage and text about why it went down. So I could show graphs over time for sure.

shoover 9y ago

Ah. I wonder if that's why Capital One's login is down. I'm a little surprised their app isn't more resilient, but this is the second multi-hour outage I've noticed in the past couple months.