Haven't seen that, but they are doing a bunch of scheduled reboots that started yesterday. Guessing they're patching for bash...
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > Has anyone else noticed Amazon AWS becoming less and less reliable in > the last several months? > > > > It is getting really annoying to me. > > > > There are many things I've observed, but this is the easiest one to talk > about: We have a zabbix server hosted in amazon, monitoring all the other > systems in amazon, as well as on our private LAN, and other datacenters. > > > > I find nowadays, that we can't go a single day without triggering alerts, > "PROBLEM: Zabbix agent on ____ is unreachable for 3 minutes". Followed > immediately by "RECOVERED" a minute or two later. > > > > Usually, the alerts are 100% inside of Amazon, in fact, 100% in Virginia. > Sure occasionally an alert about other datacenters - When there's an alert > outside of AWS, it's usually some random network provider cutting the > internet in the middle of the night (we see half a dozen systems trigger > alerts at the same time and then come back at the same time). But those > only occur, I'll guess monthly, while like I said, the AWS alerts are > happening typically on a daily basis, at random times of day or night. > > > > I almost missed a real alert buried in all the noise. > > > > Side note: There's one company I work for, that was able to switch OFF of > AWS. We went to digital ocean, where everything is 2-4 times faster, > requires 1/4 as much work, and costs half as much. So it was a big win. > Unfortunately the company experiencing the above is firmly entrenched in > AWS and would be extremely difficult to relocate. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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