Ask HN: Is AWS Down Again?

65•ajdude•2h ago

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/

Comments

nodesocket•2h ago

Don't see any issues in us-east-2 (Ohio) with my infra, but typically issues arise in us-east-1.

danudey•2h ago

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•2h ago

Down detector is much much higher when there is a real problem.

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

Johnny555•1h ago

Most of the reports on the downdetector heatmap are coming from the NYC area, that's probably more likely to be a network issue (or even, if you can imagine it, DNS) than a real AWS failure since it's well into business hours on the West Coast.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/map/

tdubey•2h ago

Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

Looks fine for now.

nodesocket•2h ago

This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?

dewey•2h ago

Which uptime checker tool would be based on status pages (owned by the marketing department)? That defeats the whole purpose.

kylecazar•2h ago

I highly doubt AWS health dashboards are owned by marketing

rozenmd•1h ago

I've run a business in this space since 2021, I am yet to meet a business that lets their marketing team own their status page.

You'll find most engineering teams will start owning a status page to centralise updates to their stakeholders, before eventually growing into the customer success/support org owning it to minimise support tickets during incidents.

Marketing has nothing to do with status pages.

port3000•1h ago

https://updog.ai/status/openai issue history looks terrible. Wonder how you ping openAI for this; with a completion attempt on a particular model?

snarkyturtle•2h ago

What's updog?

amelius•1h ago

Isn't that a kind of yoga pose?

millerm•1h ago

I know I could sure use some updog right about now.

mrinterweb•1h ago

Nothing much. How bout you?

hughdbrown•52m ago

Ah, you have fallen for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4VJobPBr4

jacobwg•33m ago

You all should add EC2 - extra bonus if you have some way of tracking performance in addition to errors (right now we're seeing EC2 instances in us-east-1c not transition out of Pending status).

matt-p•2h ago

It's wonky for sure, but only to certain IP ranges.

anshumankmr•2h ago

I got a down status on https://leetcode.com/..It may be related.

myidealab•1h ago

I think it may be down, showing early signs based on location services (geofencing) warning.

NoSalt•1h ago

I was thinking the same thing as some sites like Google were taking a LONG time to load.

Johnny555•1h ago

Google probably isn't using AWS for any of their infrastructure.

soupfordummies•1h ago

Internet has been very sluggish for me today too. Something may be going on (not necessarily AWS)

jacobwg•37m ago

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.

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