Comments on: Here’s What Amazon’s Outage Looked Like

By: Yurtdışı Eğitim

Yurtdışı Eğitim — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:48:48 +0000

It’s highly unexpected to see an outage from one of the biggest online stores of the world. They should have back ups to recover a troubled system right away…PS3 network is down for the last 3 days as well…What’s going on with the big players?

By: Zee Rizvi

Zee Rizvi — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:07:12 +0000

Cloud SLA’s are as good as the least reliable layer in the stack

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:24:56 +0000

With the status updates being about the only source of info from the company, I went with what I had as of Friday when this post was published. It certainly sounded like the majority of customer issues were resolved and that it was just a matter of hours until the rest were, but anecdotal evidence suggests that wasn’t the case.

Still, though, without knowing exact numbers regarding how bad things were initially versus how bad they are now, it’s difficult to know how much progress there actually has been.

By: Ben La Marca

Ben La Marca — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:49:16 +0000

Ditto what other commenters are stating. Amazon is still experiencing problems as of Sunday morning, 10:45am EDT with many customer sites still down since 7:22am EDT on 4/21, more than 3 full days of operation. It’s amazing that the press/media following the story are acting if everything has been resolved.

By: ElasticHosts cloud servers

ElasticHosts cloud servers — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:11:28 +0000

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By: Fuad

Fuad — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:56:21 +0000

24+ hours downtime? Unacceptable and unbelievable it happened on Amazon.

By: naisan

naisan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:37:23 +0000

Sorry guys – you’re totally wrong.

The outage is not behind them; the Amazon status site was just updated with “we’re trying to figure out a bottleneck”

So far 40+ hours of outage and counting.

By: Adam Alter

Adam Alter — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:22:35 +0000

Yup, 2:20 central time and our properties are down hard along with many others I know. All the blogs and news writing about it as if it’s over need to look again. Here’s a site some guy on Twitter put together websites that were reporting being down, looks to me like most are still down as I’m posting this: http://ec2disabled.com/

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:57:05 +0000

I’m going based on the updates at http://status.aws.amazon.com/. As of 8:49 PST, it said “Our current estimate is that the majority of volumes will be recovered over the next 5 to 6 hours,” and that’s just within the one now-affected zone.

By: StatSpotting

StatSpotting — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:30:24 +0000

Is there any way we can put a dollar amount to the outage?