If I recall correctly, availability zone (AZ) mappings are specific to an AWS account, and in fact there is no way to know if you are running in the same AZ as another AWS account: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_can_I_make_sure_that_I_am_in_the_same_Av... Also, AWS Elastic Load Balancer (and/or CloudWatch) should be able to detect that some instances are not reachable, and thus can start new instances and remap DNS entries automatically: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/ This time only 1 AZ is affected by the power outage, so sites with fault tolerance built into their AWS infrastructure should be able to handle the issues relatively easily. Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Grant Ridder <shortdudey123@gmail.com> wrote:
I have an instance in zone C and it is up and fine, so it must be A, B, or D that is down.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:42 PM, James Laszko <jamesl@mythostech.com>wrote:
To further expand:
8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.
8:31 PM PDT We are investigating elevated errors rates for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single availability zone.
8:40 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively working to restore power.
-----Original Message----- From: Grant Ridder [mailto:shortdudey123@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 8:42 PM To: Jason Baugher Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FYI Netflix is down
From Amazon
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia) (http://status.aws.amazon.com/ ) 8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region. 8:31 PM PDT We are investigating elevated errors rates for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single availability zone.
-Grant
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com
wrote:
Seeing some reports of Pinterest and Instagram down as well. Amazon cloud services being implicated.
On 6/29/2012 10:22 PM, Joe Blanchard wrote:
Seems that they are unreachable at the moment. Called and theres a recorded message stating they are aware of an issue, no details.
-Joe