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Amazon, those masters of tactful understatement, say: > 10:38 AM PDT -- We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes i

by pjscott 14y ago

Amazon, those masters of tactful understatement, say: > 10:38 AM PDT -- We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/

elliottcarlson 14y ago
Not only that - the "information" icon that they use makes it very hard to spot issues quickly. Even on a minor issue it would be useful to have some kind of different icon.
- yuvadam 14y ago
  AWS cleverly designed a very informative status dashboard: green means "things might work", green with a little speck on it means "nothing is working, the entire datacenter is down". Effectively, this is exactly how it is.
  - pjscott 14y ago
    About 33 minutes after they first acknowledged the problem, they've changed one of those indicators to as goldenrod-yellow color. Presumably this indicates that the world is on fire and the sky has gone black with carrion crows: > 11:11 AM PDT -- We can confirm degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. Instances using affected EBS volumes will also experience degraded performance.
    - Cloven 14y ago
      Amazon clearly needs a change in management at the head of AWS. The engineers are either petrified of telling the truth (very, very bad) or incompetent (less bad but still bad). And it has been this way for an unreasonably long time.
    - cpeterso 14y ago
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drags 14y ago
We're having problems in multiple AZs. In particular, we're unable to connect to our load balancers and multi-AZ RDS.
klapinat0r 14y ago
This has been noted almost every time AWS has outages, and yet it still amazes me that they keep formulating it as if "you might get slow response time, but everything works". While it is not solely AWS' fault (cloud !== no need to do proper engineering) reddit etc. is down, I do have my doubts that "degraded performance" makes all of the ec2 instances reddit runs on go haywire and shuts down the entire website, leaving a static "come back later" html page.
leothekim 14y ago
Incredibly frustrating that they understate the magnitude of the problem. We have many instances that rely on ebs and are currently unresponsive. We suspect there's a massive flood of ec2 customers trying to restart instances to fix the ebs problems, which is slowing us down in getting our service back up.

by pjscott 14y ago

elliottcarlson 14y ago

Not only that - the "information" icon that they use makes it very hard to spot issues quickly. Even on a minor issue it would be useful to have some kind of different icon.

yuvadam 14y ago
AWS cleverly designed a very informative status dashboard: green means "things might work", green with a little speck on it means "nothing is working, the entire datacenter is down". Effectively, this is exactly how it is.
- pjscott 14y ago
  About 33 minutes after they first acknowledged the problem, they've changed one of those indicators to as goldenrod-yellow color. Presumably this indicates that the world is on fire and the sky has gone black with carrion crows: > 11:11 AM PDT -- We can confirm degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. Instances using affected EBS volumes will also experience degraded performance.
  - Cloven 14y ago
    Amazon clearly needs a change in management at the head of AWS. The engineers are either petrified of telling the truth (very, very bad) or incompetent (less bad but still bad). And it has been this way for an unreasonably long time.
  - cpeterso 14y ago
    http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status0.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status0.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status1.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status1.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif
- deleted 14y ago
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drags 14y ago

We're having problems in multiple AZs. In particular, we're unable to connect to our load balancers and multi-AZ RDS.

klapinat0r 14y ago

This has been noted almost every time AWS has outages, and yet it still amazes me that they keep formulating it as if "you might get slow response time, but everything works". While it is not solely AWS' fault (cloud !== no need to do proper engineering) reddit etc. is down, I do have my doubts that "degraded performance" makes all of the ec2 instances reddit runs on go haywire and shuts down the entire website, leaving a static "come back later" html page.

leothekim 14y ago

Incredibly frustrating that they understate the magnitude of the problem. We have many instances that rely on ebs and are currently unresponsive. We suspect there's a massive flood of ec2 customers trying to restart instances to fix the ebs problems, which is slowing us down in getting our service back up.