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**spookytooth** · 04-21-2011, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Osnarf

6:18 PM PDT Earlier today we shared our high level ETA for a full recovery. At this point, all Availability Zones except one have been functioning normally for the past 5 hours. We have stabilized the remaining Availability Zone, but recovery is taking longer than we originally expected. We have been working hard to add the capacity that will enable us to safely re-mirror the stuck volumes. We expect to incrementally recover stuck volumes over the coming hours, but believe it will likely be several more hours until a significant number of volumes fully recover and customers are able to create new EBS-backed instances in the affected Availability Zone. We will be providing more information here as soon as we have it.

Here are a couple of things that customers can do in the short term to work around these problems. Customers having problems contacting EC2 instances or with instances stuck shutting down/stopping can launch a replacement instance without targeting a specific Availability Zone. If you have EBS volumes stuck detaching/attaching and have taken snapshots, you can create new volumes from snapshots in one of the other Availability Zones. Customers with instances and/or volumes that appear to be unavailable should not try to recover them by rebooting, stopping, or detaching, as these actions will not currently work on resources in the affected zone.

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New post from amazon

dont plan on playing PL till sometime tomorrow if thats the case

**Osnarf** · 04-21-2011, 08:00 PM

Did anyone play earthworm jim on genesis back in the day?

**blazinguitar** · 04-21-2011, 08:03 PM

Now PSN is down too!! The end is near!!!

**Shadow of Fire** · 04-21-2011, 08:03 PM

I suggest possibly switching to a different cloud temporarily while amazon gets things figured out? They have free trails out there for a few days that could last long enough

**Osnarf** · 04-21-2011, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by spookytooth

dont plan on playing PL till sometime tomorrow if thats the case

Pretty much what I got out of it. About to pack up and go play some minecraft, I was waiting to hear one way or the other, sounds like we heard the other.

Have a good night everybody, I'll come back and check in a couple hours and see if anythings changed.

**Crutomic** · 04-21-2011, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Shadow of Fire

I suggest possibly switching to a different cloud temporarily while amazon gets things figured out? They have free trails out there for a few days that could last long enough

In all honesty, that wouldn't be a smart move for them. The best thing for them to do would be to purchase another service through someone else which could possibly be used as a secondary server to provide better service to the players which would be used if the other server was down vise versa.

**Dartagnian** · 04-21-2011, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by Osnarf

6:18 PM PDT Earlier today we shared our high level ETA for a full recovery. At this point, all Availability Zones except one have been functioning normally for the past 5 hours. We have stabilized the remaining Availability Zone, but recovery is taking longer than we originally expected. We have been working hard to add the capacity that will enable us to safely re-mirror the stuck volumes. We expect to incrementally recover stuck volumes over the coming hours, but believe it will likely be several more hours until a significant number of volumes fully recover and customers are able to create new EBS-backed instances in the affected Availability Zone. We will be providing more information here as soon as we have it.

"...It's still busted, we are currently waiting for Opal to finish the critical ticket for our new Flux Capacitor."

Originally Posted by Osnarf

Here are a couple of things that customers can do in the short term to work around these problems. Customers having problems contacting EC2 instances or with instances stuck shutting down/stopping can launch a replacement instance without targeting a specific Availability Zone. If you have EBS volumes stuck detaching/attaching and have taken snapshots, you can create new volumes from snapshots in one of the other Availability Zones. Customers with instances and/or volumes that appear to be unavailable should not try to recover them by rebooting, stopping, or detaching, as these actions will not currently work on resources in the affected zone.

"If you're tired of waiting, fix your applications to use one of our other working servers! You should have done that in the first place, really...

Oh, and we know it's a bit late, but uh...don't reboot. It'll just make it worse. Should be fixed soon though, really! We're serious this time!"

**Colborne** · 04-21-2011, 08:09 PM

Geez reading all these posts really makes me embarrassed. These guys go to great extents to make a game like this and to come down on them like it's their fault isn't right. So PL is down for a day. Time to get a life ppl. I love this game and what the devs hav done to it to make it great for everybody. They get a lot of ppl whiningto them all the time. I think it's time we give them some credit for an outstanding job thy do. Thaknks spacetime studios and amazon for 8 great months of playing. Keep up the hard work. U guys deserve an award or something

**Ayc2000** · 04-21-2011, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by Dartagnian

"...It's still busted, we are currently waiting for Opal to finish the critical ticket for our new Flux Capacitor."

"If you're tired of waiting, fix your applications to use one of our other working servers! You should have done that in the first place, really...

Oh, and we know it's a bit late, but uh...don't reboot. It'll just make it worse. Should be fixed soon though, really! We're serious this time!"

Hahaha...
/ten char.

**Colborne** · 04-21-2011, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by Osnarf

Did anyone play earthworm jim on genesis back in the day?

Hell ya great game:/

**Asaskedara** · 04-21-2011, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by waisted menkey

Remember, there are NO PUPPIES IN THE VAN.

*Turns away from van for a second* he says no no puppies but he has candy!

**Leonadritia** · 04-21-2011, 08:16 PM

So what have pople been doing during their downtime?

Post here
10 things i did during the game outage

**Slush** · 04-21-2011, 08:16 PM

Come on devs, it's been 3 hours since the last update.

**ranonman** · 04-21-2011, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dartagnian

"...It's still busted, we are currently waiting for Opal to finish the critical ticket for our new Flux Capacitor."

No way!! They couldn't make better Flux Capacitor device than Doctor Emmett's device!!! (From Back to the Future). They'll crash time universe!

**Crutomic** · 04-21-2011, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Slush

Come on devs, it's been 3 hours since the last update.

We'll know something when they know something, as far as I am concerned there are no new "official" updates to release.

Hopefully we'll get some good news soon but I can't promise anything.

**Ortolaner** · 04-21-2011, 08:25 PM

Fairly new here. Love PL, Amazon outage has brought me here. (as others have said.)

Forum quite informative. Thanks to all the members for the helpful lists & info.

**Rare** · 04-21-2011, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Cursed

Haven't heard any updates from amazon on their status site since 148pm pdt, they call it a night or something?

92 bottles of beer on the wall, 92 bottles of beer
Take one down, trip and knock over the shelves with all the bottles..
Oops sry..

Its ok.. they were plastic bud light bottles. This is a low rent bar.