Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

70 points by ajdude 5 hours 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/

tdubey 5 hours ago

Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

Looks fine for now.

  • snarkyturtle 5 hours ago

    What's updog?

    • mrinterweb 3 hours ago

      Nothing much. How bout you?

    • hughdbrown 3 hours ago
      • Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago

        Wasn't the first reference to this joke in the office, also is it just me or do I remember this guy from either breaking bad or the office or (both??)

        Was his name neil on breaking bad or the office, I think his name was neil in the office, one of the warehouse workers right?

    • millerm 4 hours ago

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

    • amelius 4 hours ago

      Isn't that a kind of yoga pose?

    • trelliscoded 5 hours ago

      [flagged]

      • whooooosh 4 hours ago

        Hey trelliscoded, please reply to this when you get that he was referencing the joke from the beginning, I want to see how long it takes

        • stuartjohnson12 4 hours ago

          HN is starting to feel like early 2010s Reddit and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

  • jacobwg 3 hours 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).

  • nodesocket 5 hours ago

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

    • dewey 5 hours ago

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

      • rozenmd 4 hours 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.

      • kylecazar 5 hours ago

        I highly doubt AWS health dashboards are owned by marketing

jacobwg 3 hours 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.

  • everfrustrated 6 minutes ago

    We were seeing ECS Fargate capacity weirdness in us-east-1 earlier.

ENGNR an hour ago

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.

danudey 5 hours 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.

matt-p 5 hours ago

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

NoSalt 4 hours ago

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

  • Johnny555 4 hours ago

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

  • soupfordummies 4 hours ago

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

myidealab 4 hours ago

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

paulddraper 5 hours ago

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

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

nodesocket 5 hours ago

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