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AWS has historically been both slow to update and heavily optimistic with their status page. When I got the frantic texts when EC2 first dropped offline, sure
by adrianpike 14y ago
AWS has historically been both slow to update and heavily optimistic with their status page.
When I got the frantic texts when EC2 first dropped offline, sure enough, the AWS status page was all green, but twitter was alight with people talking about it.
I suspect a service disruption would have to be Godzilla.
- RegEx 14y agoAccording to other HNers, their RSS feed seems to be fairly accurate (someone please verify this), which makes the whole thing that much weirder.
- ehsanu1 14y agoNot weird at all. Companies the size of Amazon are practically bound to be schizophrenic.
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- joezydeco 14y agoYou called it. I had my money on the volcano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEPvXBEOSE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEPvXBEOSE
- rmc 14y agoWhen our EC2 hosted website seems offline and AWS status page is all green, the first thing I do is check twitter. Usually you can see people asking about outage before amazon acknoledge it.