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The specific availability zone they're talking about is eu-west-1a. Servers we have there are reported as 'running', but are unresponsive.

Other zones seem fine, but starting new servers doesn't seem to be working.

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Availability zones are different for different accounts, so for me it's eu-west-1b. You can log into the console and under the EC2 tab it will show you the status of each of your availability zones.

Ah, good to know, thanks for the pointer.

Another update on the status page, btw. It appears to be a power failure.

I've tried to create a machine in another zone with no success. I suppose there's a lot of people doing the same :(

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