Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others

Several readers have sent word of a significant Amazon EBS outage. Quoting: "Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. 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. AWS later reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and its Elastic Beanstalk application plaform also experienced failures on Monday afternoon."

I hope this doesn't affect Facebook.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or else my afternoon is going to totally suck.

Productivity up

[Phisbut]

Productivity reached a record high this afternoon.

Interestingly enough...

[Anonymous Coward]

Since no one can go on reddit, they will come back to /. only to find out why reddit is down!

define "leading" ...

[magarity]

/. is working just fine.

Are those karma points in the mail?

Oblig

[sortius_nod]

It's as if millions of geek voices cried out in terror & were suddenly silenced.

As Usual...

[broginator]

There's an oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/908/ [xkcd.com] Guess someone tripped over the wire.

Re:Productivity up

[fustakrakich]

Should we expect a baby boom in nine months?

Re:Productivity up

[Anonymous Coward]

More blind and hairy hand people, probably.

Re:Bright and Sunny Skies Today!

[Anonymous Coward]

For me, I can't see why companies would be willing to do this kind of thing. The risks are just too high.

That's because you don't have an MBA.

Re:Oblig

[jeffmeden]

Holy shit, when did memes get banned from the internet?

reddit is down, he is expecting to see nothing but NEW shitty in-jokes and hasty photoshops as he takes refuge from the storm... your attempt to re-use old humor would normally earn you a downvote but he cant find the thumb buttons on this jalopy of a website.

Re:Interestingly enough...

[maxwell demon]

Hey, confirming is Netcraft's job!

Re:Low Availability?

[eln]

That's old Web-2.0 thinking. We're in the era of the cloud now, and the cloud is magic. Trust the cloud.

Re:Productivity up

[MichaelSmith]

Not from reddit users (or slashdotters for that matter).

Re:Single AZ my butt

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're in southern Indiana, you have bigger problems than Reddit being down.