AWS outage timeline & downtimes by recovery strategy randomhacks.net 25 Apr 2011 | 08:41 pm

Renting a server from Amazon is no substitute for a disaster recovery plan. If you run your own servers, you need backups. If you can’t afford to go down, you also need offsite replication. But if yo...

AWS outage – Northern Hemisphere – East Coast privacycouncil.org 23 Oct 2012 | 01:31 am

Amazon AWS hosting has been experiencing problems since about 1 PM EDT. This is impacting many sites including NetFlix, Flipboard and Yovia. There is no word yet on when this will be fixed. For more i...

Reading between the lines of the AWS outage – Why you should be worried Part 1 drewblas.com 30 Oct 2012 | 11:27 pm

TL;DR: There are many very real problem with AWS that are being ignored.  #1 is that they appear to have no plan for dealing with their ongoing software bugs. There has been a surprising amount of tal...

Reading between the lines of the AWS outage – Why you should be worried Part 2 drewblas.com 18 Nov 2012 | 10:25 pm

TL;DR: The real problem is there isn’t enough capacity.  The us-east1 region is too big and during an outage there simply aren’t enough resources to allow users to recover their sites. In part 1 I dis...

The Purple Curtain: Or, Why You Need to Stop Hanging Out With Heroku and Friends codefury.net 14 Feb 2013 | 05:16 am

A little while back I wrote a post that didn’t have very nice things to say about Heroku. I was pretty miffed at the fact that Heroku took such a big hit when there was an AWS outage in the summer of ...

Cloud Technology Partner's Erik Sebesta and Dave Discuss the Christmas Day AWS Outage cloudcomputingpodcast.libsyn.com 14 Jan 2013 | 04:00 pm

Building for Failure - Best Practices for Mitigating AWS Outages' Impact [xpost /r/AWS] programming.reddit.com 27 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm

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Use the Same Architecture (64-bit) on All EC2 Instance Types supriyadisw.net 9 Mar 2012 | 09:07 pm

A few hours ago, Amazon AWS announced that all EC2 instance types can now run 64-bit AMIs. This is fantastic news! You can now launch 64-bit operating systems on the Small and Medium instance types....

Never Give Up. Never Surrender! girlamatic.com 25 Apr 2012 | 09:19 am

Hello, faithful Girlamatic readers and people stopping by for the first time! Girlamatic has, quite possibly always been, in flux. And the latest outages are just the latest in a more than ten year hi...

Unplanned outage - 2010-Jan-16 employees.org 18 Jan 2010 | 12:27 pm

We are still investigating the cause of the Saturday morning outage. At this time, the only thing we know is that the system had to be hard-reset to bring it back up as it would not respond to the con...