On: Amazon Web Services are down

[chrislomax]

I was looking at EC2 until this!

I thought you could cluster your instances across many regions and replicate blah blah blah and change your elastic ip addresses in instances like this?

Is this a case that it's not being utilised or does that system not work?

I appreciate you are busy right now so I'm not expecting a reply any time soon.

[jedberg → chrislomax]

That is the theory, but all of our data is currently locked in the inaccessible EBS system.

I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup, just don't use EBS.

[chrislomax → jedberg]

I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

I have not used it all in detail yet so I don't know the practicality of this method.

I think I will stick to my co-location costings I am doing for the time being. There is only one person to rely on when it all goes wrong then!

Good luck getting it sorted, i know I wouldn't appreciate being up at 3am sorting it though

[jedberg → chrislomax]

> I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

In theory, yes. In practice, those snapshots hurt the volume so much that it is impossible to take one in production.

[chrislomax → jedberg]

Interesting, your insight has given me a lot to think about.

Do you guys blog this anywhere?

[jedberg → chrislomax]

Yeah, usually they are on our blog right after the downtime, or in /r/announcements on reddit.

[masklinn → jedberg]

Or have a fallback, maybe?