Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

85 points | by ajdude 6 days ago ago

36 comments

  • tdubey 6 days ago

    Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

    https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

    Looks fine for now.

    • AkshatM 6 days ago

      Piece of UX feedback for the product team behind Updog: company logos are not searchable. It should be easy to Ctrl-F and find a relevant cloud on that detector, instead of scrolling alphabetically.

    • jacobwg 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

      • dewey 6 days ago

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

        • rozenmd 6 days 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 6 days ago

          I highly doubt AWS health dashboards are owned by marketing

      • port3000 6 days ago

        https://updog.ai/status/openai issue history looks terrible. Wonder how you ping openAI for this; with a completion attempt on a particular model?

        • arbll 6 days ago

          It is based on the impact on Datadog's customers, not on synthetic queries / pings

      • seedless-sensat 6 days ago

        From the page:

        > API health is inferred by analyzing aggregated and anonymized telemetry from across the Datadog customer base.

    • snarkyturtle 6 days ago

      What's updog?

  • jacobwg 6 days 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 days ago

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

  • ENGNR 6 days 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.

    • taf2 5 days ago

      We noticed massive latency from cloudfront spent the first part of my day migrating services out.

  • bwb 5 days ago

    I'm Ben from https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

    We are not seeing anything right now... keeping an eye out but things are normal.

  • farseer 6 days ago

    I would think that data centers scale up horizontally and a failure of one node should only affect a limited number of customers. Barring any centralized DNS mess up of-course.

  • danudey 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

  • AbhiAmbad 6 days ago

    Yes, aws was done. I am very irritated with aws now. This is 3rd time. Pricing is also very high…

    Thinking to switch to another platform.

  • nodesocket 6 days ago

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

  • paulddraper 6 days ago

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

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

  • myidealab 6 days ago

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

  • NoSalt 6 days ago

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

    • Johnny555 6 days ago

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

    • soupfordummies 6 days ago

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

  • anshumankmr 6 days ago

    I got a down status on https://leetcode.com/..It may be related.

  • silktson 6 days ago

    still slow down