Things to do when EC2 goes down (again) in the middle of the night. at elwoodicious

Published by james on April 7, 2008 in Sysadmin. Tags: Amazon, EC2, Night, Work.

Drink coffee by the gallon.
Hit F5 repeatedly on the the relevant thread hoping for some shred of a fix.
Organize your photos (again).
Throw Capt’n Crunch at your dog and marvel at how he catches it on his tongue without moving.
Plan what sleeping position you’ll assume when you get back to bed.
Start pricing Engine Yard.

1 Quyen
Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Sounds like fun. I hope EC2 doesn’t go down a lot.
2 james
Apr 8th, 2008 at 5:03 am

I’m whiny, I suppose. We’ve only had 1% of downtime in the past month but that 1% is always in the middle of the night.

It is sad when your phone yanks you out of sleep and your daughter knows it well enough that she wakes up with a “Papa?”