What an epic thread. Luckily I'm still a few days away from launching a new
app on Heroku.

- edward.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jeff Schmitz
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Latest:
>
> I suppose Heroku is in the unavailability zone that is still down.  Sorry,
> Freudian slip.
>  12:30 PM PDT We have observed successful new launches of EBS backed
> instances for the past 15 minutes in all but one of the availability zones
> in the US-EAST-1 Region. The team is continuing to work to recover the
> unavailable EBS volumes as quickly as possible.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, John Norman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Here's what you want -- from: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
>>
>> The last three provide the most information.
>>
>>  1:41 AM PDT We are currently investigating latency and error rates with
>> EBS volumes and connectivity issues reaching EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1
>> region.
>>
>> 2:18 AM PDT We can confirm connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances
>> and increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones
>> in the US-EAST-1 region. Increased error rates are affecting EBS
>> CreateVolume API calls. We continue to work towards resolution.
>>
>> 2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2
>> instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple
>> availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates
>> affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed
>> launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the
>> US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
>>
>> 3:20 AM PDT Delayed EC2 instance launches and EBS API error rates are
>> recovering. We're continuing to work towards full resolution.
>>
>> 4:09 AM PDT EBS volume latency and API errors have recovered in one of
>> the two impacted Availability Zones in US-EAST-1. We are continuing to work
>> to resolve the issues in the second impacted Availability Zone. The errors,
>> which started at 12:55AM PDT, began recovering at 2:55am PDT
>>
>> 5:02 AM PDT Latency has recovered for a portion of the impacted EBS
>> volumes. We are continuing to work to resolve the remaining issues with EBS
>> volume latency and error rates in a single Availability Zone.
>>
>> 6:09 AM PDT EBS API errors and volume latencies in the affected
>> availability zone remain. We are continuing to work towards resolution.
>>
>> 6:59 AM PDT There has been a moderate increase in error rates for
>> CreateVolume. This may impact the launch of new EBS-backed EC2 instances in
>> multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. Launches of instance
>> store AMIs are currently unaffected. We are continuing to work on resolving
>> this issue.
>>
>> 7:40 AM PDT In addition to the EBS volume latencies, EBS-backed instances
>> in the US-EAST-1 region are failing at a high rate. This is due to a high
>> error rate for creating new volumes in this region.
>>
>> 8:54 AM PDT We'd like to provide additional color on what were working on
>> right now (please note that we always know more and understand issues better
>> after we fully recover and dive deep into the post mortem). A networking
>> event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS
>> volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in
>> one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume
>> creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover
>> affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for
>> EBS has become inundated such that it's difficult to create new EBS volumes
>> and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add
>> capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and
>> working to restore the control plane issue. We're starting to see progress
>> on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates
>> when we have them.
>>
>> 10:26 AM PDT We have made significant progress in stabilizing the
>> affected EBS control plane service. EC2 API calls that do not involve EBS
>> resources in the affected Availability Zone are now seeing significantly
>> reduced failures and latency and are continuing to recover. We have also
>> brought additional capacity online in the affected Availability Zone and
>> stuck EBS volumes (those that were being remirrored) are beginning to
>> recover. We cannot yet estimate when these volumes will be completely
>> recovered, but we will provide an estimate as soon as we have sufficient
>> data to estimate the recovery. We have all available resources working to
>> restore full service functionality as soon as possible. We will continue to
>> provide updates when we have them.
>>
>> 11:09 AM PDT A number of people have asked us for an ETA on when we'll be
>> fully recovered. We deeply understand why this is important and promise to
>> share this information as soon as we have an estimate that we believe is
>> close to accurate. Our high-level ballpark right now is that the ETA is a
>> few hours. We can assure you that all-hands are on deck to recover as
>> quickly as possible. We will update the community as we have more
>> information.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Shannon Perkins <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a total lurker on this list, but I give a strong second to Eric's
>>> comment.
>>>
>>> Whatever the technical explanation/root-cause turns out to be this is not
>>> acceptable platform behavior.
>>>
>>> Very troubling.
>>>
>>> --sp
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Eric Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 21, 11:50 am, Rohit Dewan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Does anyone know why Heroku not able to redeploy onto another cluster?
>>>> In
>>>> > general, it would seem prudent to spread applications across the
>>>> various
>>>> > clusters so all apps do not suffer an outage when a single cluster is
>>>> > affected.
>>>>
>>>> I agree completely. I was surprised to see that problems in just one
>>>> of Amazons MANY data centers took Heroku down. Even their own website
>>>> and their own support system are down. I thought the point of the
>>>> cloud is to have your app stay up even if there are problems at one
>>>> data center.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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