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The AWS status page[1] is showing problems for EC2 East as of a few minutes ago. This <strike>might be</strike> is a more widespread issue. EDIT: Various non-H

The AWS status page[1] is showing problems for EC2 East as of a few minutes ago. This <strike>might be</strike> is a more widespread issue. EDIT: Various non-Heroku EC2-East-based sites (e.g. Quora) seem to be down as well, lending more evidence to this being an EC2/EBS outage. 1: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/

dangrossman 14y ago
Half the startup world is offline right now, yet the AWS status page is all greens with one "info" notice about EBS (which I doubt is the issue here). I'm glad to have moved off a fully AWS stack back to my own servers over a year ago. My uptime, bills, and stress level are all much improved.
- michaelfairley 14y ago
  Definitely an EBS issue. Our (EBS backed, Heroku hosted) DB was returning queries more and more slowly leading up to the outage.
- res0nat0r 14y ago
  Sounds like half of the startup world hasn't spent the time or the money to design their service to be redundant on top of AWS.
  - zeeg 14y ago
    Fortunately for most, they dont have customers yet
    - reddit_clone 14y ago
      That made me laugh. Am I a bad person?
  - fusiongyro 14y ago
    That's hardly surprising. The groupthink on cloud services is that they magically make everything scalable, cheap and easy. Making redundant software is hard work.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    The sales pitch is kind of that it's already redundant. You know, RAID and load balancers and all.
ajasmin 14y ago
Out of curiosity do we know if http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ is hosted on AWS?
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  status.aws.amazon.com resolves to 207.171.185.167 for me. That IP isn't in the EC2 IP ranges (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528), so at the very least it's not hosted on EC2.
- sprout 14y ago
  It's a key design constraint of status.aws.amazon.com that it not depend on any AWS services. (Or so I've heard.)
- ctrand 14y ago
  I thought I read somewhere that it was on Rackspace
atlasom 14y ago
They posted an update on amazon: We continue to investigate this issue. We can confirm that there is both impact to volumes and instances in a single AZ in US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing increased error rates and latencies on the EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Also Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia) is unavailible. Seems like its snowballing.
- res0nat0r 14y ago
  RDS actually uses EBS so it is most likely the same underlying issue.

dangrossman 14y ago

Half the startup world is offline right now, yet the AWS status page is all greens with one "info" notice about EBS (which I doubt is the issue here). I'm glad to have moved off a fully AWS stack back to my own servers over a year ago. My uptime, bills, and stress level are all much improved.

michaelfairley 14y ago
Definitely an EBS issue. Our (EBS backed, Heroku hosted) DB was returning queries more and more slowly leading up to the outage.
res0nat0r 14y ago
Sounds like half of the startup world hasn't spent the time or the money to design their service to be redundant on top of AWS.
- zeeg 14y ago
  Fortunately for most, they dont have customers yet
  - reddit_clone 14y ago
    That made me laugh. Am I a bad person?
- fusiongyro 14y ago
  That's hardly surprising. The groupthink on cloud services is that they magically make everything scalable, cheap and easy. Making redundant software is hard work.
- rhizome 14y ago
  The sales pitch is kind of that it's already redundant. You know, RAID and load balancers and all.

ajasmin 14y ago

Out of curiosity do we know if http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ is hosted on AWS?

ceejayoz 14y ago
status.aws.amazon.com resolves to 207.171.185.167 for me. That IP isn't in the EC2 IP ranges (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528), so at the very least it's not hosted on EC2.
sprout 14y ago
It's a key design constraint of status.aws.amazon.com that it not depend on any AWS services. (Or so I've heard.)
ctrand 14y ago
I thought I read somewhere that it was on Rackspace

atlasom 14y ago

They posted an update on amazon: We continue to investigate this issue. We can confirm that there is both impact to volumes and instances in a single AZ in US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing increased error rates and latencies on the EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Also Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia) is unavailible. Seems like its snowballing.

res0nat0r 14y ago
RDS actually uses EBS so it is most likely the same underlying issue.