Hacker News Reader

I made sure our incident response plan includes checking Hacker News and Twitter for actual updates and information.

As of right now, this thread and one update from a twitter user, https://twitter.com/SiteRelEnby/status/1468253604876333059 are all we have. I went into disaster recovery mode when I saw our traffic dropped to 0 suddenly at 10:30am ET. That was just the SQS/something else preventing our ELB logs from being extracted to DataDog though.

View on HN

So as of the time you posted this comment, were other services actually down? The way the 500 shows up, and the AWS status page, makes it sound like "only" the main landing page/mgt console is unavailable, not AWS services.

Yes, they are still publishing lies on their status page. In this thread people are reporting issues with many services. I'm seeing periodic S3 PUT failures for the last 1.5 hours.

AWS services are all built against each other so one failing will take down a bunch more which take down more like dominos. Internally there’s a list of >20 “public facing” AWS services impacted.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com