There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.

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New launches for EBS backed instances are failing and instances using affected EBS volumes will experience degraded performance.

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EC2 and EBS, as part of the Amazon Web Services suite, are designed with substantial amounts of redundancy and fail-over capability.

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Instances using affected EBS volumes will also experience degraded performance.

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Much of the work that will come out of this event will be to further protect the EBS service in the face of a similar failure in the future.

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ICAP-owned trading platform EBS, which handles flows from the biggest banks in the business, said its daily average currency trading volumes in January rebounded 22% from a year earlier and 54% from December.

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Irish Nationwide Building Society and EBS Building Society.

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SunPower and EBS also plan to construct a chain of solar power plants, including rooftop solar projects on government buildings, across the State of Punjab to generate nearly 1, 000 MW of power over the next two years.

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Last weeks outage only affected EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone, so those customers running with adequate capacity in other Availability Zones in the US East Region were able to tolerate the event with limited impact to their applications.

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