Is 99 Designs Down?

Latest update as of 4:00pm PST on November 25, 2020:

All services are now returning to normal, thanks for your patience. Please contact our support team if you need assistance with a project or contest as a result of the outage today: https://t.co/l50Z4RsTzH

— 99designs (@99designs) November 25, 2020

If you are a current or previous client with us, 99 Designs is currently down, as of 10:05am PST across the globe. This is connected to a widespread outage on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Currently, Roku, Flickr, Dribbble, and Leviton are experiencing outages (plus many more websites).

There is a widespread Amazon Web Services outage today that is affecting our site. Our team is actively working on getting us back up and running as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!

— 99designs (@99designs) November 25, 2020

Update from Amazon

Increased Error Rates

9:52 AM PST: The Kinesis Data Streams API is currently impaired in the US-EAST-1 Region. As a result customers are not able to write or read data published to Kinesis streams.

CloudWatch metrics and events are also affected, with elevated PutMetricData API error rates and some delayed metrics. While EC2 instances and connectivity remain healthy, some instances are experiencing delayed instance health metrics, but remain in a healthy state. AutoScaling is also experiencing delays in scaling time due to CloudWatch metric delays. For customers affected by this, we recommend manual scaling adjustments to AutoScaling groups.

The issue is also affecting other services, including ACM, Amplify Console, API Gateway, AppMesh, AppStream2, AppSync, Athena, Batch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Cognito, Connect, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Glue, IoT Services, Lambda, LEX, Managed Blockchain, Marketplace, Personalize, RDS, Resource Groups, SageMaker, Support Console, Well Architected, and Workspaces. For further details on each of these services, please see the Personal Health Dashboard. Other services, like S3, remain unaffected by this event. This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard. We are continuing to work towards resolution.

We will update as we see more news progress…

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