Monday, August 08, 2011

Down Goes The Internet⦠Again. Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/amazon-ec2-outage/

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Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It’s largely broken.

As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others are down.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past April. So far, it looks like the outage has been going on for about 30 minutes.

Update: It looks like the outage may be isolated to EAST-1, so not all of EC2. Still, all of the companies above and hundreds of others are clearly affected right now.

Update 2: And after roughly 40 minutes of downtime, the Internet appears to be coming back online. Amazon’s status site confirms that it’s being resolved.

@davetufts
Dave Tufts
Amazon EC2 us-east: also downgraded by S&P
@instagram
Instagram
Hey everyone – we're experiencing major problems with our hosting provider right now. We're doing our best to investigate. Updates soon
@harryh
 
ec2 east appears 100% down
@HiroProt
Martin May
EC2 East down = forkly down
@wesleybarrow
Wesley Barrow
First the market, then AWS. Is the sun gonna rise tomorrow?
@Yobongo
 
We are experiencing some unexpected downtime due to Amazon EC2. Will update as soon as things are back to normal.
@andrew311
Andrew
Update on AWS status page, "We are investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the US-EAST-1 region." status.aws.amazon.com #Amazon


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