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AWS Web Console Down?

102 points| typicalrunt | 6 years ago

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

It appears to be down, saying "Website temporarily unavailable". But it's intermittent for other employees at my company so it might be failing app services behind a load balancer.

CLI access or EC2 services doesn't appear to be affected, at least from us-east-1.

And, of course, the status health dashboard shows Green across the board. https://status.aws.amazon.com/

UPDATE

HatchedLake721 mentions that it appears to just be us-east-1 Web console that's down. Use this instead for now: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-west-2

Thanks @HatchedLake721!

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fiveoak|6 years ago

It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't

EnFinlay|6 years ago

I want status pages to show traffic to the status page itself over the last 24 hours (or some time period). A sudden uptick in traffic but green across the board would indicate that there is an issue, but they just haven't updated the page yet.

brianwawok|6 years ago

If you can write a perfect automated status page - can't you basically write perfect integration tests and make sure no bad code gets deployed?

Bit of a chicken and an egg problem :)

xur17|6 years ago

I've always wanted to build a public status page for services like Google Cloud and AWS with real tests against different services they offer. Not sure there is a good way to monetize though.

skrebbel|6 years ago

I've always wondered about this strategy. I'm a developer and a business owner. I'm in AWS's core target demographic. I know three things about AWS:

    - Their products have weird names
    - Their web console has horrible UX
    - The lie about uptime and server status
I'm not looking to switch to AWS soon.

zedpm|6 years ago

FWIW, if you're already logged in to the console, it seems to be working just fine. In fact, if I try to go to a specific service page, e.g. https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home?region=us-east-1# instead of just browsing to the console home page, that also appears to work.

PDFormat|6 years ago

This way worked for me too. I was able to go straight to the Lambda console.

DonHopkins|6 years ago

At least AWS doesn't start spamming you weeks after servers go down!

I canceled a dedicated server with IBM SoftLayer (nee ThePlanet), and a few weeks later I started receiving hourly IPAlerts about it being offline!

The server was canceled so there was nowhere in the interface for me to turn them off!

I opened a ticket, and they said other users were experiencing it too, and they though they had it fixed, and asked it I was still getting them. I was.

Their only suggestion was for me to make an email filter to ignore the IPAlerts, but what about the IPAlerts for servers I hadn't canceled that I actually want to see?

We went several rounds of this, each time they thought they had it fixed, and asked if I was still receiving them, and of course I was, like clockwork.

It's been more than a week and a half, and I'm STILL getting them!

I kept posting the raw email bodies so they could tell by the headers where it was coming from.

I even begged them to deploy one of their most powerful firewalls around the offending legacy nagios server to protect me from it, but they wouldn't do that.

I'm afraid if I cancel my other two servers and move to AWS, they's start spamming me with TWO MORE never-ending sets of IPAlerts about canceled servers!

What a passive-aggressive way of punishing long time customers for canceling their servers!

Has anybody experienced anything like this with AWS?

    Received:  from ipalert05.dllstx6.inside.theplanet.com
        by mx.softlayer.com with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256)
        (Exim)
        (envelope-from <ipalert@softlayer.com>)
        for xxx@xxx.com
        id 1hJhFu-0003RG-Tm; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:29:50 -0500
    Received: (from nagios@localhost)
        by ipalert.theplanet.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id x3PGSB17029986
        for xxx@xxx.com; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:28:11 -0500 (CDT)
        (envelope-from nagios)
    Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:28:11 -0500 (CDT)
    Message-Id: <201904251628.x3PGSB17029986@ipalert.theplanet.com>
    To: xxx@xxx.com
    From: <ipalert@softlayer.com>
    Subject: PROBLEM: xxx.xxx.com

kylek|6 years ago

I think the thing I miss most about AWS was sipping coffee while watching the #wtf peanut gallery on wednesday mornings and during events like this

busterarm|6 years ago

Can confirm that I am having this issue.

API requests/CLI work fine though.

crystite|6 years ago

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Shows AWS Web Console:

9:50 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates when loading the AWS Management Console.

crystite|6 years ago

AWS keeps their status page up2date these days. It's probably easier to check that page than combing through posts on HN, but to each their own.

This makes me wonder... do people keep posting and looking here because they want an element of control, they don't trust or know about status.aws.amazon.com ... or why?

TheGRS|6 years ago

I'll just report that we had an issue with an Elastic Beanstalk deployment that seems to have resolved itself now. Not sure if its related, but simply retrying the deployment resolved it without making any changes, so it sure seems related.

zonywhoop|6 years ago

DynamoDB access via api in us-east-1 is down for me as well. Also, access to any region or resource through SSO is failing too.

slenk|6 years ago

I am having issues with SAML authentication as well

goodfight|6 years ago

Strange, I'm experiencing this issue as well. Wonder if it's an attack or just normal failure

actionowl|6 years ago

Also having issues, the AWS status page is oblivious...

cortesoft|6 years ago

Same, came here to check if there was any info on it.

giffyUnicorn|6 years ago

confirmed, us-west works for logging into the console.

jshaw3|6 years ago

us-east-1 is down for me

hsk823|6 years ago

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tus87|6 years ago

Everyone take the day off.