Amazon Web Services are down

Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:34AM (#2470220)

That is the theory, but all of our data is currently locked in the inaccessible EBS system.

I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup, just don't use EBS.

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by chrislomax on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:54AM (#2470269)

I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

I have not used it all in detail yet so I don't know the practicality of this method.

I think I will stick to my co-location costings I am doing for the time being. There is only one person to rely on when it all goes wrong then!

Good luck getting it sorted, i know I wouldn't appreciate being up at 3am sorting it though

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:42AM (#2470559)

> I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

In theory, yes. In practice, those snapshots hurt the volume so much that it is impossible to take one in production.

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by chrislomax on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:08AM (#2470651)

Interesting, your insight has given me a lot to think about.

Do you guys blog this anywhere?

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:37AM (#2471012)

Yeah, usually they are on our blog right after the downtime, or in /r/announcements on reddit.

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by masklinn on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:50AM (#2470259)

Or have a fallback, maybe?

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