Dossier
EC2
Coverage of EC2 in the Nexus archive.
- AWS warns of EC2 ‘impairment’ as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is addressing a power outage in the US-EAST-1 region, which has caused impairments to services, including EC2 instances and EBS volumes. The issue is affecting users with elevated error rates and latencies. AWS is working to restore temperatures to normal levels.
- Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions
AWS launched S3 Files, allowing S3 buckets to be mounted as NFS shares. The author tested the product by spinning up an EC2 instance to attempt breaking it, noting the core S3 product is solid and fairly priced.