Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others

Found on Network World on Monday, 22 October 2012
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AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes." It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. It warns that instances using EBS volumes will also experience degraded performance.

AWS has periodic performance issues this year, including its last major outage in late June, which it blamed on powerful storms that ripped through the mid-Atlantic region causing power outages. Last year, AWS was down for as many as four days for some customers, including Reddit, Foursquare, Quora and HootSuite.

Shortly after confirming the EBS outages, AWS reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Elastic Beanstalk, which is an application deployment service and ElastiCache were also impacted by the outage.

Put everything into the cloud. The cloud makes everything fine. Never again experience downtimes in the cloud. Well, it looks like the cloud is just as reliable as your traditional hosting, or worse. The cloud is just a marketing gag; just like the .com bubble was.