Major Outage At the Amazon Web Services

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:45AM from the but-the-cloud-fixes-everything dept.

ralphart writes "The Northern Virginia datacenter for Amazon Web Services appears to be having a major outage that affects EC2 services. The Amazon Forums are full of reports of problems. Latest update from the status page: 2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution."

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No Way! by Frosty+Piss · 2011-04-21 03:48 · Score: 5, Funny

But how can this be possible? It's The Cloud . This sort of this simply doesn't happen.

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Re:Reddit is down because of this by cobrausn · 2011-04-21 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

You're posting on Slashdot, so I believe you already found the answer.

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