Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. However, it just went down for many customers in the East Coast and the cause - Network Error! There were some issues with the Backup jobs failing as well and thereby eliminating redundancy.
The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely. Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Moby and Hootsuite are among those affected by technical troubles on Amazon’s servers. The company’s status dashboard currently shows problems with the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service operations, based in North Virginia, with connectivity issues confirmed.
Let's hope that this is just a short term issue and will be fixed immediately, else customers may lose their confidence on the EC2.
So if you are planning to jump onto the EC2 band-wagon or any other low cost Cloud Service, expect these kind of outages as we are dealing with machines and machines may go down! Even their SLA's specify 99.95% uptime, right?
The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely. Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Moby and Hootsuite are among those affected by technical troubles on Amazon’s servers. The company’s status dashboard currently shows problems with the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service operations, based in North Virginia, with connectivity issues confirmed.
Let's hope that this is just a short term issue and will be fixed immediately, else customers may lose their confidence on the EC2.
So if you are planning to jump onto the EC2 band-wagon or any other low cost Cloud Service, expect these kind of outages as we are dealing with machines and machines may go down! Even their SLA's specify 99.95% uptime, right?
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