Ask HN: How often do your EBS volumes fail?
Maybe it's something unique to our setup, but we find that our Amazon EBS volumes fail approximately once every 1 - 2 months. We are running a pretty normal Mysql server through RightScale with fairly low traffic. And yet, without fail every month or two our main database will die because the EBS store "goes away"
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We had a similar experience with failure every 3 months or so. We had a small portion of our services on Amazon and it was the main reason we moved it back to our own Servers.
I really don't know how they can continue to offer a service with a failure rate as high as EBS. Amazon should be ashamed of themselves for having such a glaring gap in their otherwise strong collection of products.
I've been told about this sort of thing, but I wasn't sure how widespread it was. Reading the latest RFO from Amazon, I guess I'm not terribly suprised. Its unfortunate that its so difficult to get 3rd party storage into amazon's infrastructure without paying an arm and a leg, maybe someone will do this some day.
We had two disappear in quick succession shortly after migrating to ec2 a couple of months ago (one running postgres and one varnish), but nothing since.