Amazon Web Services Outage

Will

Posted by Will at April 21st, 2011

At approximately 1:00 AM PST Amazon's Eastern US data center started showing signs of latency and error rates with EBS volumes and connectivity issues. As a direct result we're seeing a number of issues on Lighthouse that are causing decreased performance and frequent connectivity problems.

Tender does not appear to be suffering from any of these problems.

We're monitoring the situation and updating @lighthouseapp on Twitter with any information that we receive from Engine Yard and Amazon Web Services about the problem.

Updates:

04:07 PM PST on April 22, 2011

  • Our additional application servers are back online. We stayed up through the AWS outage, but it's still nice to have those additional server muscle up and running again.

We've successfully forwarded all traffic to our servers that are not affected by the EC2 outage. Lighthouse is up and running.01:35 PM PST on April 21, 2011 via web Favorite Retweet Reply

We're rerouting traffic from the downed EC2 instances to app servers that are still functional.12:20 PM PST on April 21, 2011 via Twitter for Mac Favorite Retweet Reply

Amazon now gives a high-level ETA of “a few hours” until the full recovery. As always, see http://status.aws.amazon.com/ for details.11:32 AM PST on April 21, 2011 via Echofon Favorite Retweet Reply

1 Comment

  1. courtenay courtenay said on April 21st, 2011

    We’re attempting to route around the problem. You may notice some weirdness with updates not ‘taking’ immediately – but right now we’re just crunching through a backlog, and it should be fine soon.

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