Looks like we are back up now. We run our own CouchDB cluster outside of
Heroku so the app itself is up.

K.
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Jeff Schmitz
<[email protected]>wrote:

> This morning, some tools are not working...
>
> I was able to run a console, but not do a backup.
>
> Its not as bad as some services, Quora is still down.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Edward Hotchkiss <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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