Last night, Amazon Web Services had an outage in their Northern California datacenter. This adversely affected some of our cloud customers. Our network administrators were advised of the problem and Amazon worked to restore service.
From Amazon's Status Page
12:14 AM PDT We are continuing to bring the few remaining impacted instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
12:38 AM PDT We are continuing to bring the few remaining impacted instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
1:41 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
2:43 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
4:00 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
5:56 AM PDT We have seen recovery with the majority of Single-AZ instances and are continuing to bring the remaining Single-AZ instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
7:19 AM PDT [RESOLVED] Between 5:32 PM PDT on May 26, 2014 and 6:45 AM PDT on May 27, 2014 we experienced connectivity issues affecting some RDS database instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
We're sorry for the inconvenience and are continuing to work on the cloud products to create the best environment for our customers.
From Amazon's Status Page
12:14 AM PDT We are continuing to bring the few remaining impacted instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
12:38 AM PDT We are continuing to bring the few remaining impacted instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
1:41 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
2:43 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
4:00 AM PDT We are continuing to make progress to recover the remaining instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
5:56 AM PDT We have seen recovery with the majority of Single-AZ instances and are continuing to bring the remaining Single-AZ instances back online in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region.
7:19 AM PDT [RESOLVED] Between 5:32 PM PDT on May 26, 2014 and 6:45 AM PDT on May 27, 2014 we experienced connectivity issues affecting some RDS database instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-WEST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
We're sorry for the inconvenience and are continuing to work on the cloud products to create the best environment for our customers.