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Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others

Posted by Soulskill on from the karma-for-the-kindle-wiping dept.

Several readers have sent word of a significant Amazon EBS outage. Quoting: "Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing 'degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes.' It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. AWS later reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and its Elastic Beanstalk application plaform also experienced failures on Monday afternoon."

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  1. I hope this doesn't affect Facebook. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or else my afternoon is going to totally suck.

  2. Productivity up by Phisbut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Productivity reached a record high this afternoon.

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    After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
    - The Tao of Programming
    1. Re:Productivity up by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Funny

      Should we expect a baby boom in nine months?

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    2. Re:Productivity up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      More blind and hairy hand people, probably.

    3. Re:Productivity up by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not from reddit users (or slashdotters for that matter).

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      http://michaelsmith.id.au
  3. Interestingly enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since no one can go on reddit, they will come back to /. only to find out why reddit is down!

    1. Re:Interestingly enough... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, confirming is Netcraft's job!

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  4. define "leading" ... by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

    /. is working just fine.

    Are those karma points in the mail?

  5. Oblig by sortius_nod · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's as if millions of geek voices cried out in terror & were suddenly silenced.

    1. Re:Oblig by jeffmeden · · Score: 3, Funny

      Holy shit, when did memes get banned from the internet?

      reddit is down, he is expecting to see nothing but NEW shitty in-jokes and hasty photoshops as he takes refuge from the storm... your attempt to re-use old humor would normally earn you a downvote but he cant find the thumb buttons on this jalopy of a website.

  6. As Usual... by broginator · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/908/ Guess someone tripped over the wire.

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    s/[stupid comments]/[intelligent discourse]/gi
  7. Re:Bright and Sunny Skies Today! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For me, I can't see why companies would be willing to do this kind of thing. The risks are just too high.

    That's because you don't have an MBA.

  8. Re:Low Availability? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's old Web-2.0 thinking. We're in the era of the cloud now, and the cloud is magic. Trust the cloud.

  9. Re:Single AZ my butt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    If you're in southern Indiana, you have bigger problems than Reddit being down.