Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 22, 2012 @08:02AM 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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Other Victims by Revotron · 2012-10-22 08:06 · Score: 4, Informative

Coursera is also down as a result.
Same region as the storm in June by bill_mcgonigle · 2012-10-22 08:07 · Score: 4, Informative

Bad luck if you're hosted in the US-East-1 Region, I guess.
Heh, I should really start advertising the LVS clusters I tend to as 'private clouds with better uptime than Amazon'.

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Re:Low Availability? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-22 08:09 · Score: 4, Informative

>Reddit, Imgur, etc., don't have presences in multiple availability zones to prevent this kind of outage
They do. It's a multi-AZ outage, despite what Amazon is saying.