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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by mechanical_fish on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:45AM (#2469934)
That seems to be incorrect. We have problem children in us-east-1b, -1c, and -1d.
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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by justinsb on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:55AM (#2469953)
AWS randomize the zones per account, so "your" -1b is not necessarily the same as "my" -1b. I'm only seeing problems in my -1c. Are you seeing 3 zones failing all under the same account?

If multiple AZs are down, AWS are going to have some serious explaining to do...

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by dangrossman on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:24AM (#2470058)
Amazon RDS's most expensive feature is automatic, instant Multi-AZ failover to protect against this kind of situation. It's not working quite like that, which the AWS status page acknowledges. This is a major failure.
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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by nlo on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:04AM (#2469988)
"AWS randomize the zones per account"

Interesting. This is news to me.

I found some more info here (Google cache since alestic.com is presently unreachable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0jxzyFj...

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:01AM (#2469974)
We (reddit) are seeing failures in all zones.
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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by redthrowaway on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:05AM (#2469992)
If memory serves, Amazon's reporting of what zones are experiencing problems has been...optimistic...in the past.
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