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		jschorr on Aug 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS S3 Outage It appears EC2 is affected as well now: 12:51 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for the EC2 APIs and launch failures for new EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.

cperciva on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

Probably just fallout from the fact that EBS snapshots are stored in S3. If you can't create an EBS volume, you won't be able to launch an EC2 instance from it.

mentat on Aug 10, 2015 | [–]

It appears that s3 based AMIs totally fail to launch as unavailable as well.

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