Today is not a good day for Amazon and specially for services running on North Virginia server, Amazon Web Serivces (AWS) hiccup causing outage to Yodiz and many other services like Reddit, Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare and Minecraft.
Amazon web Services health dashboard is having the following update
RDS database instances are experiencing connectivity issues in a single Availability Zone
11:03 AM PDT We are currently experiencing connectivity issues and degraded performance for a small number of RDS DB Instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.
11:45 AM PDT A number of Amazon RDS DB Instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region are experiencing connectivity issues or degraded performance. New instance create requests in the affected Availability Zone are experiencing elevated latencies. We are investigating the root cause.
12:53 PM PDT We have recovered a number of affected RDS instances and are working on recovering the remaining impacted RDS DB instances a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. New instance creation requests in the affected Availability Zone continue to experience elevated latencies.
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Apologies for the outage, hope Amazon will fix the problem soon.