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The circle is green with a little "note" on it. "8:50 PM PDT We are investigating degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region.
by michaelfairley 14y ago
The circle is green with a little "note" on it.
"8:50 PM PDT We are investigating degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region."
- DigitalSea 14y agoWouldn't that only affect a small subset of visitors. For example why would I be seeing any issues if I'd be hitting an Asia-pacific volume instead of a us-east region one? Seems like it goes deeper than that.
- michaelfairley 14y agoIt's now yellow with this: "9:27 PM PDT 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." AWS has been historically bad at reporting the severity of their outages promptly.
- mechanical_fish 14y agoOne problem which we've seen before is: If a large percentage of AWS infrastructure goes down, the customers don't just quietly suffer. Instead they scramble to try and launch infrastructure in other zones or regions, which creates a cascading series of load spikes throughout the AWS system. AWS is a fascinating science experiment. Pity about the websites, though.
- mibbitier 14y agoA green circle with a little note on it, for "There was a complete power failure" God only knows what they reserve the red circle for...