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We (reddit) are seeing failures in all zones.

If memory serves, Amazon's reporting of what zones are experiencing problems has been...optimistic...in the past.

"AWS randomize the zones per account"

Interesting. This is news to me.

I found some more info here (Google cache since alestic.com is presently unreachable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0jxzyFj...

Amazon RDS's most expensive feature is automatic, instant Multi-AZ failover to protect against this kind of situation. It's not working quite like that, which the AWS status page acknowledges. This is a major failure.