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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by driverdan on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:22PM (#4684567)
Amazon is downplaying the problem. It is affecting many large sites.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by res0nat0r on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:32PM (#4684626)
Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by mey on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:51PM (#4684771)
http://downrightnow.com/netflix

If netflix is down, then it's something most companies who know how to design fail over can't cope with.

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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by res0nat0r on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:00PM (#4684838)
The last Netflix post mortem mentioned they had a bug in their configuration where they kept sending traffic to already down ELB instances, which was the cause of the last outage for them if I remember correctly.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by Uchikoma on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:10PM (#4684892)
AirBnB is also down.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by creatrice on Monday October 22, 2012 @07:05PM (#4686006)
Yeap, it's down the day I really need it!
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by incision on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:11PM (#4684895)
Not necessarily, it could be some element of the Netflix architecture that due to their size and/or design trade-offs has taken longer / is harder to eliminate than it would be for others.

Other services, like Twilio, have come through several of these major problems with US-EAST generally unscathed while Netflix has had issues repeatedly.

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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by iamdave on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:30PM (#4685029)
Netflix seems to be operating just fine for me in the southwest USA.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by acdha on Monday October 22, 2012 @06:36PM (#4685914)
According to a site which doesn't document what its reports are based on. Given that Netflix worked for me during that period, I'm suspicious that downrightnow might be using EBS somewhere.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by dsl on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:55PM (#4684798)
I'm seeing issues across multiple AZ's. Everything is still up, but that doesn't stop me from getting paged.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by darkarmani on Monday October 22, 2012 @04:49PM (#4685450)
Including companies like Amazon that aren't properly architecting their control plane.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by jeremyjh on Monday October 22, 2012 @07:24PM (#4686071)
They should outsource it.
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