Also http://www.mobypicture.com

Also http://www.mobypicture.com

Still, that’s one of the main points in using external vendors. You can point the finger at someone else when things go wrong.

Plus, when other services are similarly affected you aren’t singled out as incompetent. You are just another victim.

Still, that’s one of the main points in using external vendors. You can point the finger at someone else when things go wrong.

Plus, when other services are similarly affected you aren’t singled out as incompetent. You are just another victim.

Wow, that’s bad!

even HootSuite? http://hootsuite.com/

How many services deployed their infrastructure across multiple AWS availability zones?

Clearly none of the ones that went down. But the ones that stayed up, did.

I was told that was a strong sign of the apocalypse…

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“We’d point fingers, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without EC2.” ….today you are offline.

We’re in 3 AZ’s. The outage was multi-AZ.

According to the discussion on HN, the failures are happening across multiple availability zones.

Skynet

The effects of the downtime on actual users can be see in the Global Provider View cloud service monitor on CloudSleuth – https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view

you jackasses took down reddit!! >:O

[...] is, what happens when the cloud blows away? Never happen? Well, it hasn’t so far today: Cloud computing is all very well until someone trips over a wire and the whole thing goes [...]

The large automotive classified site http://www.RacingJunk.com is also down because if this.

NetFlix has been very bullish on AWS… Are they down?

ohhh awe!!

NetFlix has been very bullish on AWS… Are they down?

After those services are down I had a look outside and saw the sun still shining. I’m going to take the rest of the day off and Let those engineers engineer. Most likely, everything will be fine by tomorrow!

Add Friendfeed to the list

[...] es infalible y, bajo determinadas circunstancias cualquier solución puede fallar. Según reportan desde TechCrunch, el servicio de infraestructura en la nube de Amazon, el Amazon EC2, estaría sufriendo una [...]

We got hit too … http://www.myxer.com

Every time the cloud goes down, we start to question its stability. It’s really no big deal; this will be the new “unforseen act of nature”.

Shit happens. When there’s a snow storm on the east coast, we don’t flip out when our mail is delayed a day or two.

If you’re a sysadmin and your company’s website goes down for half a day you’ll get hanged by the balls. If you’re a company that provides something called Elastic Compute CLOUD you get praise when your crappy overpriced service brings down half the internet.

Ooh, crafty plug!

You get praise because you managed to get half the internet hooked on your “crappy overpriced” service.

This does not look like the future.

BTW: Hey, Disqus is back! Good on you. I haven’t look at TC for a while.

Dude, it’s “Northern” Virginia

Why do most sites continue to use the excuse “planned downtime/maintenance” whenever something unforeseen happens? It’s so silly..

[...] interesting to watch bloggers including Martin Bryant and Mike Butcher only point to the same set of sites (Quora, Foursquare, Reddit and Hootsuite) that use [...]

Are startups giving control to Amazon? As Amazon EC2 goes down, so does the hottest startups. I think there’s lot lessons to be learnt by both consumers and startups. It’s not affecting only the startups but the consumers who’ve been using the service for many day-to-day purposes. Central point of failure is what we need to avoid.

So, I’m not an engineer, but is there a discount when something like this happens?! We have not launched our site yet, but I can only imagine how the users would obviously loose confidence in the site if something like this happens. The average person does not care to know how we host our site, they only care that it does what its supposed to.
You can check out our site ww.goactwell.com …O wait, that’s right, you can’t because its down, but it will be back up, we can’t tell you when of course, but at some point.

@jack: yup, this is def. a sign of the end of times..lol

also http://www.friendcaller.com

About.me appears down too but I can’t confirm if they use AWS.

In the voice of that lady in the MS commercial “Yaaaay Cloud”

“‘Cloud computing is all very well until someone trips over a wire and the whole thing goes dark.”

Isn’t that true of ALL computing?

distributed redundant architecture saved http://www.getzephyr.com (for most part, downtime is isolated to few services in few geographies)

Also some SVN repositories from assembla.com are being down. You can follow status on http://twitter.com/assembla

It’s not really clear that Amazon appreciates the magnitude of the situation. As of 6:34AM Pacific Time, we lost about 5 of 25 servers, and have managed to patch things together for the moment (whoops: just lost another one — really!). However, the Amazon dashboard classifies this as a “performance issue” — not a “service disruption.”

https://img.skitch.com/20110421-1jgrdh6rmgejx389u1wyqfiufr.png

[...] Judgment day (T2 ftw) was yesterday ….. And despite the lack of mushroom clouds on the horizon, we woke today to complete turmoil* … With core parts of the Internet and technology infrastructure in disarray. I for one am imagining a robotic Arnie walking through the aisle’s in Amazon’s data centre destroying it piece by piece. Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora [...]

Mint.com does not appear to be working correctly. Are the banking connections on Mint run on EC2? This event comes as my company weighs AWS as an option in our next development strategy and while it doesn’t completely rule them out, it definitely puts another item in the Cons column.

Flavors.me is also down due to the Amazon outage: https://flavorsme.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/2154-message-from-flavors-admin-site-down-due-to-amazon-outage

Cloud services are great and save a lot of cash compared to having your own servers at a co-lo. But being at the other guys mercy sucks too.

[...] big news right now is the rather massive outage at Amazon’s US-EAST-1 datacenter, which has taken down Quora, FourSquare, Reddit, paper.li, [...]

Another website that’s down because of this is Lockerz.com, members haven’t been able to log in since April 20th 11pm-12am. Members can’t sign in or reset password “invalid account” or “can’t log in”…

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[...] es infalible y, bajo determinadas circunstancias cualquier solución puede fallar. Según reportan desde TechCrunch, el servicio de infraestructura en la nube de Amazon, Amazon EC2, estaría sufriendo una [...]

This article misses two critical points:

- Amazon has multiple datacentres at which it operates EC2 and the Relational Database service. The article implies the two services “are hosted in its North Virginia data centre.”

- The point of a cloud strategy is that it gives you the capabilities to mitigate these failures at much lower cost than a traditional hoster. If a site such as Quora is affected by downtime in one datacentre, they’re doing it wrong.

For example: EC2 and RDB are available in their Ireland datacentre, and also in their Tokyo one which – by the way – stayed up just fine last month.

All AZs are in the same region though, so only have power / network isolation but are in the same datacentre. AWS makes it straightforward to mitigate in another region (datacentre) entirely.

Please. Like startups never went offline before hosting on EC2.

I would have expected the data to be distributed over a few data centers?

AWS is very far from a single point of failure if you use it correctly

Ha ha ha

Crap! From blendtec found out where they keep the cloud!

[...] Techcrunch [...]

Downtimes, brings back some great memories…

Iqbal

Perfect performance is not available. Not at any price.

Would it not be sensible to compare an alternative infrastructure with cloud computing, in general, and AWS, in particular, on the basis of an objective overall assessment of performance and price? This would include: benefits of distributed facilities and redundancy; consequences of specific failures; and ability to recovery from disruption.

For many organisations, cloud computing might not be right approach; but there is little doubt about the current direction of the trend.

We can confirm that the Amazon problem is also affecting our real-time group messaging service. We are looking into a workaround: http://www.sazneo.com/

Man, without Reddit at work, I actually have to do some work….What is the world coming to?!?

It’s well documented that Amazon has been providing a less than decent service to Reddit. They are way below their SLA right now. It’s been down almost a full working day now, that is a far from acceptable service from a company of that magnitude.

Nothing to do with how these start ups are “using” Amazon. Amazon failed, not them.

Problem is, you can’t create instances right now even in areas that aren’t affected. We’ve tried…

Actually it is to do with how it is used. Amazon’s web services give you the tools to fail over to another country entirely – and for far cheaper than you could do with a classic hoster. This is the point of the cloud as Amazon offers it. The “cloud” is not “magically never goes down don’t worry about it LOL”.

If you choose to ignore a cost-effective method of failover and redundancy, you have to accept some of the responsibility.

Are you trying in a different region or just a different availability zone (same region)? I just launched one in Europe fine.

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the best domain for this service isn’t EC2 but AMAcloud.com

the best domain for this service isn’t EC2 but AMAcloud.com

the best domain for this service isn’t EC2 but AMAcloud.com

[...] more information or reading on this particular subject, you can go either here, or here. This entry was posted in Service Status. Bookmark the permalink. ← Case Studies – [...]

The status updates on Amazon are actually getting worse:
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

What’s funny is that there is an Amazon AWS ad at the top of this article. Ha ha.

What’s funny is that there is an Amazon AWS ad at the top of this article. Ha ha.

Is anyone doing some investigate research on how this affected the startup ecosystem? http://localo.com is down too and I am wondering how many startups are being affected.

To request a service credit, you have to send them an email. You’re looking for their SLA (service level agreement) for EC2: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/

eu.techcrunch.com… regular TC still has FB comments qq

I’m going to start storing batteries, just incase.

Ah, Thanks! I guess I’ll be visiting eu.TC from now on.

Not all at the same time they didn’t.

Also affecting HootSuite and a whole number of other apps like Wildfire.

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora (eu.techcrunch.com) [...]

And it’s never happened to a company not hosted on EC2 in your universe?

Interesting definition of “all” you have

[...] I couldn’t get on anyone’s about.me page earlier today, so I checked their compeititor flavors.me, they were also down, which seemed like a strange coincidence. I did a bit of Twitter snooping and it appeared that Amazon’s EC2 hosting service, specifically their Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service in Northern Virginia were having issues. You can find technical details at Amazon Web Services Health Dashboard. Mike Butcher at TechCrunch Europe was one of the first to write about the downtime. [...]

Heroku is affected too: http://status.heroku.com/

cloud needs to get mature

http://startupgazette.com.w3spy.net/

StartupGazette.com is in the Amazon cloud running nginx in front of clustered Apache servers with RDS and it never went down. They are also in the Virginia cluster.

The thing with AWS is that if something happens in one region you can just restart an EC2 or RDS instance in another region in 5 seconds. It’s no big deal.

The author doesn’t seem to know that.

http://startupgazette.com.w3spy.net/

StartupGazette.com is in the Amazon cloud running nginx in front of clustered Apache servers with RDS and it never went down. They are also in the Virginia cluster.

The thing with AWS is that if something happens in one region you can just restart an EC2 or RDS instance in another region in 5 seconds. It’s no big deal.

The author doesn’t seem to know that.

Screw all these sites, http://www.selfedge.com is down!

Screw all these sites, http://www.selfedge.com is down!

Amazon should have the redundancy built in. If the “cloud” goes down, I’d expect there be another “cloud” in another state that it automatically fails over to.

Amazon should have the redundancy built in. If the “cloud” goes down, I’d expect there be another “cloud” in another state that it automatically fails over to.

It Makes me Feel bad.

Wasn’t the outage just EC2-East? Why aren’t these services using multiple datacenters?

What a mess! This is affecting more sites than what is listed here. Im guessing Hootsuite is on this server as well.

I agree with you, we must look at the bigger picture. Zero tolerance for failures will put a giant constraint on further developments & innovations

You apparently aren’t a redditor. 3 former admins have spoken out about the consistent failure of EBS. With former admins saying that 80% of reddit’s downtime is amazon’s fault, I find it strange that you’re trying to defend them – especially considering the current outage.

This information was VERY difficult to find since reddit is currently down, but here’s a source: http://i.imgur.com/vK7de.jpg

Ketralnis, KeyserSosa, and Raldi are all former reddit employees. And not insignificant ones either, seeing as reddit currently has just three employees.

arghhhh.

Alex – that’s true if you have a small website, but not I believe if you have a multi-TB database like errrr reddit, foursquare, quora

Another European startup down, but icing some beers to wait it out … http://buddybeers.com

of course 80% of downtime is due to services like these. I would think it would be more.

thing is, everybody’s getting to connected to giants.. the outcomes will not allow individual startups to evolve without them, hence decadent global village with no ingenious development.

Internets are b0rken. Time to get back to work.

I said “mitigate” and maintain that Amazon gives you straightforward options for this compared to the cost burden of a traditional host.

Replication of data writes and reads across multiple nodes is precisely the reason Reddit chose memcachedb (etc.). Similar redundancy and replication concerns are required and met by Foursquare, Quora etc. using a variety of technologies. The downtime, in part, has been caused by the fact that in many cases these services chose (for reasons good or bad) to replicate production caches and data to different racks (“AWS availability zones”) within the same datacentre (“AWS region”) rather than have the replication span geographical boundaries.

For all customers affected by EC2 downtime, I would like to recommend ElasticHosts as an alternative cloud service (www.elastichosts.com) – we offer a 5 day free trial for our cloud servers in US or UK, which is likely enough at least to bridge the gap.

IndabaMusic.com is down as well

[...] [...]

The beauty of Cloud: We can blame Amazon instead of our IT when we’re down. Except we really can’t: http://tinyurl.com/3hjhzr5

Cheers,

BW

The beauty of Cloud: We can blame Amazon instead of our IT when we’re down. Except we really can’t: http://tinyurl.com/3hjhzr5

Cheers,

BW

The EC2 being down is exactly why people are so hesitant to buy into cloud computing.

Neumodo.com is down too, and timing couldn’t be worse as we’re having our Groupon deal featured today — 9 hours and counting!

Neumodo.com is down too, and timing couldn’t be worse as we’re having our Groupon deal featured today — 9 hours and counting!

Last I checked, there was no state called North Virginia; Northern Virginia or North Carolina?

You’re right, I don’t care at all about reddit really. I’ve never used it.

I’m not in particular defending Amazon or EC2. I am pointing out that sites go down all the time when they are self hosted as well. The problem is not EC2, the problem is keeping sites up can be hard, no matter where they are hosted. Perhaps Amazon’s SLA has been violated, but a lot of self-hosted sites have suffered comparable outages. No SLA was violated in those cases, but the outcome was the same.

A bit shocked to learn that big sites like foursquare and quora rely on one cloud provider… a bit like putting all your eggs in one basket.

A small part of the network went down. Not as stated in the article title “Amazon EC2″. I have several servers on Amazon EC2 and all of them are up and haven’t been down.

I know people love to beat a dog when it is down. But stating that the whole EC2 network is down is nonsense.

PS they are having trouble in N. Virginia: http://q3w.us/m1B

If that is the case than Reddit can do what any one else would do and switch providers. The fact that they haven’t yet speaks for itself.

[...] es infalible y, bajo determinadas circunstancias cualquier solución puede fallar. Según reportan desde TechCrunch, el servicio de infraestructura en la nube de Amazon, Amazon EC2, estaría sufriendo una [...]

A bad news

http://www.minhasweb.com

A bad news

http://www.minhasweb.com

so titanic went down

Magic Touch was unaffected by the outage until 9.48am EDT (that’s 2 hours ago as of right now).

This is the longest outage we’ve experienced in the last 2 years.

Thankfully, if the Magic Touch service goes down, customer images are served via their own sites, so the impact is reduced (only the zoom capability is missing). http://www.magictoolbox.com/magictouch/ Not ideal but a whole lot better than millions of missing images on thousands of websites.

Well…this really bites.

Our startup http://www.synergyhub.com just got went viral this morning on all these sites, then puff! our traffic was gone.

You’re killin us Amazon.

[...] is een deel van Amazon AWS neergegaan – blijkbaar zijn er problemen in het DC in N-Virginia. http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/…are-and-quora/ Over het hoe en waarom van het down gaan van het DC stel ik me geen vragen – het kan altijd [...]

That is not how it works if you want that type of redundancy you have to build it yourself. If Amazon would do this we would pay a lot more for the services. Which people would then complain about.

So nobody thought TITANIC can go on the bottom so fat so loud ?

This is probably a cost issue, if you keep it in the same region the costs for this replication is cheaper. Replication to another region means higher monthly charges for those services.

This is probably a cost issue, if you keep it in the same region the costs for this replication is cheaper. Replication to another region means higher monthly charges for those services.

I’m sorry, did you say “cost-effective”??? I have never, ever, heard EC2 referred to as “cost-effective”. That’s just a joke.

Their EC2 services come at a premium, and as such, should be reliable no matter where or how many copies you do or do not have. To suggest anything else would be idiotic and fiscally irresponsible.

Cost-effective. LOL.

Even https://myhealthonline.sutterhealth.org is down which provides access to patient charts.

So you caused it…..See what going viral can do it brings down every site in N. Virginia. lol

Stretching a cloud..? really?

We at http://www.come2play.com are stuck as well…
The worst thing is that we will get no compensation for it, we will even pay for all the attempts we did for uploading new servers.

Unless you’re omnipresent, just because you haven’t heard it does not preclude it from being factual.

Try leasing equivalent compute and storage capability from a provider in geographically distinct datacentres, giving them ample connectivity to each other, and compare the costs and relative merits including the minimum lease terms. If you succeed in finding something more cost-effective, you may just have found a service that could attract away tens of thousands of customers from Amazon or Azure – in which case, well done you.

[...] themoviedb.org down? Nothing to be worried about. They use Amazon's EC2 hosting service which is down today. They should be back up in a few hours. That said I know hosting for themoviedb.org is not cheap [...]

Wishing all of our teachers were on spring break — BetterLesson.org is down too!”

Wishing all of our teachers were on spring break — BetterLesson.org is down too!”

They are….

SimpleGeo is deployed in three AZ’s, two in the east and didn’t go down.

Back in a few minutes….lol

There’s more information about the March outage issues here (blog is still up):
http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html

That depends on the type and number of instances that you have running. We have more the 50 EC2 EBS backed instances running in production across all availability zones on the east region. About 25% of them are currently down. Redundancy is mostly done in pairs, but we were unlucky in that we encountered double failures in our architecture. Now we need to go back to the drawing board and design our app across regions.

There’s no state called Northern Virginia either.

Actually, basically ALL of the downtime is due to services like this, for any company that uses services like these; pretty definitional. The question is how does that down-time compare to doing it yourself, in house, at the same cost.

I’m sure it will only take them a leisurely Sunday afternoon to do so….. as if moving an entire datacenter is an easy thing to do. Good luck on that one, chap.

And http://localo.com is back! A list of services affected is available at http://www.ec2disabled.com/

And http://localo.com is back! A list of services affected is available at http://www.ec2disabled.com/

Couldn’t of picked a better moment to launch my new site, so stoked! Thank you Amazon.

no, it didnt.

What to do when Reddit is down:
http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/03/what-to-do-when-reddit-is-down/

Also http://springpadit.com/ is down all day too

A decade ago Web Hosters/ASPs knew how to run services over multiple datacentres and to shuttle services between them to ensure a near zero fail overall, and to bring things up fast via failover procedures – we even did it during 9/11 with a the entire NYC comms going down (literally). If Amazon can’t do it in 2011 then either:

(i) they are totally incompetent (unlikely)
(ii) this is a bigger issue than they are letting on, or
(iii) these companies are not buying the right sort of deal if they want to be “always on”.

Also, if the cloud industry spent a little less on hype and a bit more on good engineering, expectations may match reality. “The Cloud” is a long way from Five Nines capability.

I am the CTO of a startup using AWS and we had to suffer from this outage this morning.

About 2 weeks ago we moved one of the services to AWS following an outage on a dedicated server. We had no hot backup and were down for almost 20 hours although our (well-known) provider had told us via email that we should expect 1 hour recovery time just a few weeks prior.

For our new setup I provisioned 2 servers with MySQL Master-Slave replication, one on the East coast, the other one on the West coast. We had to switch over before the setup was finalized for monetary reasons (that’s the life of a startup)…

Early this morning our master database hosted on EBS on US-EST-1 was not responding. There was no way to recover the service and I decided to switch over to the slave server on US-WEST-1.

It was much harder than anticipated because our setup and disaster recovery plan was not fully in place, but none of our customers have reported their service down. We were supposed to do our first drill over the weekend but we had a live opportunity to test this new setup and it was a lot of stress due to the nature of this service.

We had proper documentation that was crucial for the fast and full recovery.

AWS management console has worked flawlessly during the incident although we could not do snapshots on the East coast because the EBS volumes were not reachable.

Overall I am very happy with the end result as it rewarded a lot of hard work. Cloud or not, AWS is not better nor worse than other solutions. At least AWS makes it somewhat easy to setup over different regions when the other provider required that we have both our servers in the same rack! That’s how they lost me and our startup as a customer.

Startups have do build for failures, hardware, network, power, data centers, but also human error (drop table replicated on slave server, oops) and vandalism (delete snapshots and everything else, #@!t).

Why is Quora still down? And, why is no one writing a story about why Quora is still down?

The fact of the matter is you have to spend a LOT of money in infrastructure to have close to “perfect” availability…and if you had all that money, you would not be hosting with EC2

The fact of the matter is you have to spend a LOT of money in infrastructure to have close to “perfect” availability…and if you had all that money, you would not be hosting with EC2

EC2 going down for a while is ok, anything can go wrong. But the very point of using this service is lost after that.

While Cloud Services may be a cheap way to start a company, decision makers need to re-evaluate that decision as a company grows. The savings realized by moving to the cloud may be erased by one single failure (alone) of that cloud vendor, not to mention security concerns.
Outages can and will likely occur when managing your own infrastructure, but it’s another thing when you’re down because your cloud vendor did not plan accordingly for growth.

While Cloud Services may be a cheap way to start a company, decision makers need to re-evaluate that decision as a company grows. The savings realized by moving to the cloud may be erased by one single failure (alone) of that cloud vendor, not to mention security concerns.
Outages can and will likely occur when managing your own infrastructure, but it’s another thing when you’re down because your cloud vendor did not plan accordingly for growth.

It’s not really feasible (primarily speed) to replicate to another region at scale, nor should it be necessary base on AWS documentation. See this post which outlines the issue quite well: http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling

It’s not really feasible (primarily speed) to replicate to another region at scale, nor should it be necessary base on AWS documentation. See this post which outlines the issue quite well: http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling

We’ve been running inkd.com on Amazon for 2.5 years. We’ve had, over that period, perhaps 2-3 cases of downtime. Today is the first time the downtime was greater than a few hours.

When was the last time an admin ever said: ‘Yeah this downtime was my fault, I screwed up.’. I’ve never heard that myself. Back in the hardware was to blame, now it’s cloud.

I am sorry but your own data center can have issues as well. Things happen no matter how hard you try. It is just a question of what kind of failover you can afford to implement. Here in the bay area we had a situation where someone physically cut cables that were the backbone of the internet to 100s of businesses. Did everyone flee the provider? What would your data center do in that case?

Right. You could be more like Twitter!

We are planning the ‘T1000 Gathering’ to start a discussion about how to prevent large scale failures in the future and how to minimize their impact on the whole ecosystem.

We are having the meetup ( http://bit.ly/feYcuC ) at 5pm on May 9th in San Francisco followed by a screening of Terminator in the evening.

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!

Question: Does Amazon.com not run on EC2, so surely it would have been affected? If not why not?

Having been using AWS+EC2 for 2 somewhat odd years we were quite prepared and only mildly affected. Since so many were hit by this, really hard, it seems that they’ve been drinking the Amazon kool-aid. Amazon loves extolling the benefits of EBS, and this is what failed. EBS took a hard, cold crap. This also murdered RDS, since it lives on top of EBS.

It’s about time someone (maybe me) wrote a real usability (aka survival guide) to AWS. The forums were full of people crying their hearts out, and I admit, one of our really old servers was impacted. But it could have been much worse, and the fact that it was pretty darn bad for some big companies tells me their architecture is not up to snuff. You have to architect for the actual usability of the system you’re on, not really based on what the reps tell you…

You’re right. But when the servers are commodity hardware, you gotta work extra hard in keeping them up and architecting for eventual failure.

What bugged a lot of people on the AWS support forums was that Amazon claims that different availability zones are isolated and immune from problems of other zones. This affected every zone on the east coast. So if you say, had a DR site in a different zone, but on the same coast.. oops.

You’re right. But when the servers are commodity hardware, you gotta work extra hard in keeping them up and architecting for eventual failure.

What bugged a lot of people on the AWS support forums was that Amazon claims that different availability zones are isolated and immune from problems of other zones. This affected every zone on the east coast. So if you say, had a DR site in a different zone, but on the same coast.. oops.

Thank goodness we chose MediaTemple over Amazon… barely, but we did. So Nikotime.com was safe and secure and accepting WEEKEND texts to 21534. Oh wait, I’m sorry. Was that a shameless plug? No, in fact I’m quite ashamed of myself… I love me some clouds!

Yes Alex, such services do exist. People don’t use EC2 for cost, it’s damn expensive. If you use it “right” think on the level of 10x more expensive then a comparable physical provider.

The beauty in using AWS though is the ‘on demand’ feature. You can scale based on traffic, within about 5 minutes. Good luck doing that with anyone else. If you have a steady amount of expected traffic, that’s a different story.

Then StartupGazette was very lucky. That RDS region is the one that failed. Believe me though, if your RDS would have failed, you would not have been able to startup anywhere for hours. RDS is backed by EBS, and EBS was completely dead.

“- Amazon has multiple datacentres at which it operates EC2 and the Relational Database service. The article implies the two services “are hosted in its North Virginia data centre.”"

EBS failed across the board in multiple availability zones us-east-1a through d.

“- The point of a cloud strategy is that it gives you the capabilities to mitigate these failures at much lower cost than a traditional hoster.”

Incorrect, other physical host providers have servers in ‘zones’ on the same backbone, using server hardware, and cheaper cost.

Having been a part of two start-up enterprises (with the same parent company) I will second Jean’s sentiment. There is not a lot of money. Corners are ‘pushed’ and the collective we have to accept responsibility for every decision made. Before services like AWS start-ups could not afford certain technical ‘extravagances’. Just as ‘the cloud’ makes more thing possible, it also makes more problems possible… Mo money = mo problems…

And yet you claim it’s cheaper to replicate data across regions vs another provider. Obviously you’ve never tried to push terabytes. Amazon charges for data across regions, and they charge higher for any regions outside of the east coast.

Might be cheaper if you have no data to push.

I been in the infrastructure business for 25 years, designing HA system on many different O/Ss and hardware platforms. This is what happens when you have sys admins designing the architecture – just remember the simple fact is – You Get What You Pay For! – If the business isn’t willing to pay for Five Nines and put the proper procedures in place, Like a TESTED DR plan – Before you go live – this is what happens…….

Ask Quora

A public cloud service outage is indeed very public

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We are running EBS backed instances and multi hundred gigabyte EBS volumes us-east-1a and have not had downtime at all since the issues started earlier today. Hopefully we don’t encounter any problems…

No reddit for a day. I ended up going outside, it was really sunny and I saw haveyouseenthisflyer.com

whenever they switch servers, they have to establish connection to the old server to get all the information off of it, or else they might as well formatted the server and started from scratch.

unfortunately, Pocket Legends has been downed by this as well.

We had a limited impacted at 3Clickemr.com as we had servers running in West too. Lost some time in dns migration

Amazon.com doesn’t even use CloudFront as their CDN — They use Akamai, so I’m not shocked if they run the “amazon.com” outside of EC2.

Because it’s hard to replicate terabytes of data across regions?

Because it’s hard to replicate terabytes of data across regions?

Not if your computing is happening on a light-powered TI Calculator. It is the best thing after Automatic motion-powered watches. The TI Calculator does not even need sun, it even runs off a light bulb’s light… So this event is definitely a text-book case for true distributed fault-tolerant computing.

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EC2 is still the premiere cloud hosting environment, leading innovation among all competitors. And their servers are usually VERY healthy.

Cloud clients are re-learning the lesson that tech companies learned from offshoring their core development: Never, ever outsource your core competency. Own the nest for your eggs and guard it zealously.

It most likely runs on EC2, it would make sense for Amazon to eat its own food. Actually, I read somewhere that EC2 was born from a consideration of having extra resources when amazon.com was not using them.
The reasons why amazon.com is not down are probably
1) They are replicated across many regions – they can afford moving TB of data
2) They have better monitoring than EC2 clients might have.
3) Their data model is easier to partition – probably a section of the listing might be down or few account not accessible but this does not affect everybody.
4) Although consistency is important it’s not vital.

It most likely runs on EC2, it would make sense for Amazon to eat its own food. Actually, I read somewhere that EC2 was born from a consideration of having extra resources when amazon.com was not using them.
The reasons why amazon.com is not down are probably
1) They are replicated across many regions – they can afford moving TB of data
2) They have better monitoring than EC2 clients might have.
3) Their data model is easier to partition – probably a section of the listing might be down or few account not accessible but this does not affect everybody.
4) Although consistency is important it’s not vital.

Our startup (www.peopledock.com) has been on Amazon for over a year. We expected outages, but not one this long.

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A “cloud” is nothing more than a virtualization cluster on equipment dedicated to you, and that’s been around for 10+ years. “Clouds” caught on because they were simple to get started and great at the small scale. Now its just a marketing buzzword. Not my words although I agree!. More hardware = more problems, more defragmentation = more problems

James (with UK2)
http://www.software-dungeon.co.uk

strange =(. what about recovery plan !?

oops, it’s work now =)/

Aardvark – http://vark.com/ is also under case =(

Wait for Jumpple – know first whats the status of your website!

Mobypicture is back online with a series of workarounds: How we did it? http://mathys.vanabbe.com/thunder-in-the-cloud/

Mobypicture is back online with a series of workarounds: How we did it? http://mathys.vanabbe.com/thunder-in-the-cloud/

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Re point 1 – EBS failed across multiple availability zones, not regions.
Re point 2 – I’m talking about mitigating failures by replicating data to an offsite datacentre (another “region”). You’re misunderstanding my point by assuming I’m talking about racks within the same datacentre, I think.

Consider the fact other providers also charge for data in/out of their datacentres too. Consider that with a traditional provider, you might be leasing hardware or VMs in both datacentres at much greater minimum terms. The difference is no longer so huge when you consider the whole picture.

We used EC2 for cost savings. Remember that cost savings are often about value, not just cash outlay. I’m not talking through lack of experience.

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This is not a surprise to me, after 28 years in the computer field I have seen plenty of computer problems, even today I find myself fighting with my ISP by phone when I tell them that they have a problem and they refuse to admit it claiming that the problem is in my computer and it takes hours, somtimes days, for them to admit that they had a problem.

Normally planning a network infrastructure takes in consideration problems like hardware failure, viruses, security issues and bottlenecks but it is very difficult to diagnose a faulty network cable that sends garbage data that reduces the overall traffic speed.

Cloud computing is being “pushed” by companies as the next step in computer evolution, in the future there will be no software piracy because there will be no software to buy, instead, you will buy an online software sevice, your computer will not need to be a powerful computer because the computing task will be made at the server side and we will all work with the latest updated program version, no more operating system compatibility issues.

Cloud computing has its pros and cons, one of the cons you read it in this article.

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I noticed in the post someone said “with one big issue: ELB, our loadbalancer, was still offline.” — I’ve only been reading about EBS/RDS issues… Could you explain how you ELB’s were impacted? (I’m also a AWS customer but running out of the WEST).

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Would anyone be interested in a round table on the AWS outage? Get different technical people from the multiple companies affected by the recent outage and exchange information on architectural problems that was exposed during the outage, the downsides, etc. and then go over strategies to architect away those issues?

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I am more than willing. We could organize a conference. There is load we could learn from our different experiences.

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You’re mixing apple’s and oranges. There’s cost savings, and there’s value. I’ve mentioned before, that what you get with AWS is on-demand instances. It’s up to you to put a ‘cost’ on that. But for equal value, you can get a better deal somewhere else. If you’re not utilizing on-demand infrastructure for scaling, and you’re doing a real DR site and using different regions (as you would, if it was a real DR site), and you’re pushing any kind of real world data, then you’re paying through the nose for it. If there’s value in it for you, more power to you, but definitely the cost is huge.

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Point 1.. that’s what I said. Also, it goes against what Amazon tells you should happen:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#features

“Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region.” – Yet, they were all affected.

Point 2.. no one is talking about racks. See quote above. Replicating within a region for a DR, while not advisable, IS something that’s done for cost reasons, as well as latency. Good luck in trying to push terabytes for replication data across geographic regions. You can do it with a dinky database, but not something on the level of Zynga, Reddit, etc.

Cydia is also affected…

I am sad.

Exactly…. I figure we all experienced something different and had different types of setups.

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any chance these servers are really in Japan?! dont get mad, im just sayin’

Where and when? I could ask my college – http://www.tcd.ie – and distributed system group – http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie – if they are willing to host it. I am sure we have quite interesting stuff to discuss, furthermore Amazon has some offices in Dublin so they could attend, as guest.

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I’ll let you know — I’m trying to see who all I can get to attend

For more details on Amazon’s outage and its relation to its SLAs, see:

http://cloudcomputingfuture.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/why-amazons-cloud-computing-outage-didnt-violate-its-sla/

where there’s clouds there’s rain (and a little thunder/lightning)

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Thus kinda funny hey

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haha hilarious – I love the video. @Mike, you might be interested in our CTO, Diane Yu’s, take on this and the cloud in general. We work with Turner, VEVO, Warner, FOX, Discovery and more and would not and do not rely on the cloud…but it’s not always the technology’s fault….http://www.freewheel.tv/theroundup/blog/a_ctos_thoughts_about_amazons_cloud_crash/

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For a summary of the technical reasons for the Amazon outage as explained in their post-mortem analysis, see “Understanding Amazon Web Services’s April 2011 Outage” at the blog “Cloud Computing Today”

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[...] this week. First, they took out Foursquare, Reddit and Quora service, as TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher reported yesterday. The disaster in the cloud also put a stop to those who would Tweet the revolution via Act.ly, a [...]

[...] when parts of Amazon EC2 went down last month, taking popular sites like Reddit and Foursquare down with it, the original [...]

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare an&#1… [...]

[...] Perhaps this is merely a philosophical point, but one thing is certain, none of the recent widely publicized outages of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service appeared to impact Amazon’s music service  or any of [...]

EC2 is playing a great role in business and i feel a slight problem also causes inconvenience. 

[...] to mention, the outage comes on the same day that Amazon’s cloud-based web services crashed, taking Reddit, Foursquare, and Quora with them. Unfortunately, it seems that today has become a [...]

[...] this week. First, they took out Foursquare, Reddit and Quora service, as TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher reported yesterday. The disaster in the cloud also put a stop to those who would Tweet the revolution via Act.ly, a [...]

[...] familiar with AWS (which you may have heard recently suffered from some downtime) might know that Amazon’s cloud platform allows developers to build and scale online services [...]

[...] hosts a lot of websites. Some very popular ones that see billions of pageviews a [...]

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora [...]

[...] Amazon, tuvo un fallo en una parte de los centros de cómputo (Costa Este de EE.UU.), privó a muchos de su informática [...]

[...] Amazon had a major outage this year and brought several famous websites down with it. More here: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04…In conclusion I still firmly believe the pros outweighs the cons since both servies are, overall, [...]

The only way to get 100% uptime is to have lots of spare capacity to deal with peak loads.  That is very expensive. Without knowing the terms of their deal with Amazon it is very difficult to know who is to blame.  Look at Twitter how often were they over capacity and made you come back later!   corporate events London 

Finding cost effective but robust hosting & enough capacity is a real problem for social media type businesses esp of course with more use of pics and video.  It was not long ago there were regular Facebook and Twitter outage issues.  I can recall hosting a corporate social  with our internet clients in a London Cocktail bar with both Twitter and Facebook  not being able to upload. 

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora [...]

[...] high-profile cloud outage in April, the company was not prepared. Other big-name properties like Reddit and Foursquare were caught off guard as well. While the cloud is being touted as this magical commodity that lets you store your data where you [...]

[...] que estos son más seguros, confiables y resistentes a ataques informáticos y otras fallas, pero en ese momento Amazon EC2 sufrió algunos problemas de conectividad que afectaron servicios como Reddit, Foursquare y Quora, que estos últimos intentaron excusar con [...]

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[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others are down.If this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 minutes.Update: It looks like the [...]

[...] as EC2 is down again for the second time this year. For those who missed it, the king of the cloud went down in April of this year as well and for quite a long time. When a service touts 99% uptime it’s pretty easy [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, this is why it just happened this past April . To date, it feels like the outage have been happening for roughly half-hour [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

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[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It’s largely broken. As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others are down. If this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. [...]

[...] If this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. [...]

[...] どこかで聞いたような話？ そう、4月にも同様の事象が発生している。障害発生から30分ほどは各地に混乱が広がった。 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] Tilsyneladende er ikke engang cloud-hosting 100% bullet-proof, når det er moder natur der skyder. I søndags gik det ud over det datacenter, der hoster en cloud-løsning for giganterne Microsoft og Amazon. Tilbage i april var den også gal. [...]

[...] Som vi har sätt så är inte ens cloud-hosting 100% säkert mot vad moder natur kan komma att göra. I söndags så drabbades det datacenter som hostar en cloud lösning för giganterna Microsoft och Amazon. Även i april var det något på tok. [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 [...]

[...] and bandwidth. Meanwhile, the rest of the market has moved effortlessly to the cloud, and while it hasn’t been perfect, countless services and apps have been built that would have been financially prohibitive before. [...]

[...] to mention, the outage comes on the same day that Amazon’s cloud-based web services crashed, taking Reddit, Foursquare, and Quora (among others) with them. Unfortunately, it seems that today [...]

[...] this week. First, they took out Foursquare, Reddit and Quora service, as TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher reported yesterday. The disaster in the cloud also put a stop to those who would Tweet the revolution via Act.ly, a [...]

[...] familiar with AWS (which you may have heard recently suffered from some downtime) might know that Amazon’s cloud platform allows developers to build and scale online services [...]

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora [...]

[...] Web Services and AuthSmtp, for example, compete directly with SendGrid’s service. Though EC2 loudly and publicly took a nap at the end of April, suffering from network latency and connectivity issues, AWS continues to grow [...]

[...] this sounds familiar, it’s because it meet happened this time April. So far, it looks same the outage has been going on for most 30 [...]

[...] What makes this story incredible is not that Amazon went down. What was amazing was the number of companies that built applications on Amazon as if it would never go down. Clouds will always be built with [...]

[...] Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and QuoraApr 21, 2011 Cloud computing is all very well until someone trips over a wire and the whole thing goes dark. Reddit [...]

[...] Amazon EC2 – August 8th 2011 – http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-goes-down-taking-with-it-reddit-foursquare-and-quora/ [...]

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[...] April this year one of Amazon’s land-based servers suffered a severe malfunction which closed thousands of its client websites and services. The financial loss to business was [...]

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want more information about EC2 or RDS 

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[...] Since your instances are not physical machines, your provider guarantees you that it will never fail. Never, never ever. [...]

I like what you guys tend to be up too. Such clever work and coverage!

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[...] As you may be aware, uberVU has been down for almost a day now. This is due to an Amazon Web Services problem (they host our servers) that has been affecting numerous companies throughout the world, including HootSuite, FourSquare, Reddit or Quora. You can read more about this issue on Mashable or TechCrunch. [...]

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