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Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

85 points by ajdude ↗ HN
There's nothing on health.aws.amazon.com but I'm getting reports of performance failure on systems that utilize AWS...

Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

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nodesocket
Don't see any issues in us-east-2 (Ohio) with my infra, but typically issues arise in us-east-1.
danudey
I'm currently in the process of spinning up a k8s in us-west-2 and no issues, but, as others have said, us-east-1 is the problem child so I guess we'll see.
paulddraper
Down detector is much much higher when there is a real problem.

There might be something, but wouldn’t be widespread.

matt-p
It's wonky for sure, but only to certain IP ranges.
myidealab
I think it may be down, showing early signs based on location services (geofencing) warning.
NoSalt
I was thinking the same thing as some sites like Google were taking a LONG time to load.
jacobwg
We've been observing EC2 instances launched in us-east-1c (use1-az2) remain in Pending status for a very long time / indefinitely, starting at around 16:00 UTC.
ENGNR
Had some very weird behaviour from cloudfront used purely to serve images from s3. Mostly huge slowdowns and outright failures on endpoints. Was about 15 hours ago that I noticed it by chance.

Was nothing on the aws status pages and no alerts/errors in my console. Eventually it sped up again.

taf2
We noticed massive latency from cloudfront spent the first part of my day migrating services out.
farseer
I would think that data centers scale up horizontally and a failure of one node should only affect a limited number of customers. Barring any centralized DNS mess up of-course.
AbhiAmbad
Yes, aws was done. I am very irritated with aws now. This is 3rd time. Pricing is also very high…

Thinking to switch to another platform.