Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

By: ajdude

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/

By: tdubey

2 days ago

Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

Looks fine for now.

By: AkshatM

1 day 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.

By: jacobwg

1 day 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).

By: nodesocket

2 days ago

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

By: dewey

2 days ago

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

By: rozenmd

1 day 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.

By: kylecazar

2 days ago

I highly doubt AWS health dashboards are owned by marketing

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By: port3000

1 day 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?

By: arbll

1 day ago

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

By: seedless-sensat

1 day ago

From the page:

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

By: snarkyturtle

2 days ago

What's updog?

By: mrinterweb

1 day ago

Nothing much. How bout you?

By: hughdbrown

1 day ago

Ah, you have fallen for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4VJobPBr4

By: Imustaskforhelp

1 day 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?

By: almosthere

1 day ago

2003 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/updog

Personally my favorite usage of the joke is from Kitboga:

https://www.facebook.com/Twitch/videos/watch-kitboga-on-twit...

By: HelloUsername

1 day ago

Better Call Saul

By: millerm

1 day ago

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

By: amelius

1 day ago

Isn't that a kind of yoga pose?

By: trelliscoded

2 days ago

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By: whooooosh

1 day ago

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By: stuartjohnson12

1 day 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.

By: whooooosh

1 day ago

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By: bwb

5 hours ago

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

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

By: jacobwg

1 day 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.

By: everfrustrated

1 day ago

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

By: ENGNR

1 day 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.

By: taf2

5 hours ago

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

By: farseer

1 day 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.

By: AbhiAmbad

1 day 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.

By: danudey

2 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.

By: matt-p

2 days ago

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

By: nodesocket

2 days ago

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

By: paulddraper

2 days ago

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

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

By: Johnny555

1 day ago

Most of the reports on the downdetector heatmap are coming from the NYC area, that's probably more likely to be a network issue (or even, if you can imagine it, DNS) than a real AWS failure since it's well into business hours on the West Coast.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/map/

By: myidealab

1 day ago

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

By: NoSalt

1 day ago

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

By: Johnny555

1 day ago

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

By: soupfordummies

1 day ago

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

By: anshumankmr

2 days ago

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

By: IT4MD

1 day ago

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By: silktson

1 day ago

still slow down

By: Alexbilyy77

1 day ago

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By: banjwoorri

1 day ago

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