You'd think Netflix would learn by now to move back to their own gear.<p>EDIT: Downvote away; its practically dogma on HN to use AWS. How much downtime are people willing to tolerate for a "superior" technology? Sure, Amazon AWS has some great ideas and tech, but you might as well give up if your business depends on EBS in us-east-1 <i>at all</i>
Soon it will be news when the N. Virginia services are actually up! I don't want to be too hard on Amazon because what they've built is pretty amazing, but I really have to wonder what's different about the N. Virginia site ... And why they're not having similar failures at the other sites.
<a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/</a><p>Amazon CloudSearch (N. Virginia) - CloudSearch issues<p>"6:00 PM PST We are continuing to investigate the issue. Domain creation and indexing operations continue to be unavailable. Changes to existing domains may have severe delays in being processed."<p>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia) - Elastic Load Balancer issues<p>"5:49 PM PST We continue to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. Traffic for some ELBs are currently experiencing significant levels of traffic loss."
The net says it is mostly on the East coast but I am in California just a few miles from Netflix HQ and it is down for me on my iPad.
I should try on the Apple TV since they mentioned that it is working on other devices.
I will be curious to hear the post mortem of the outage from both AWS and Netflix.
The timing I am sure doesn't help with Christmas Eve around the corner and probably many engineers not reachable quickly.