Amazon EU-West 1 trouble

[dovid at telecurve.com (Dovid Bender)]

HE is having issues in Europe. I spoke with them an hour ago, they said they were aware of the issue but didn't have an ETA. Based on the traces we saw issues with connections coming into London.


? Original Message ?
From: baldur.norddahl at gmail.com
Sent: April 23, 2017 6:52 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Amazon EU-West 1 trouble

Hello,

We are currently experiencing massive packet loss from Amazon EU-West 1. 
This page http://ec2-reachability.amazonaws.com/ will show most of 
eu-west-1 as down but actually it is packet loss of 90+ %.

I have found that if I shutdown our link to Hurricane Electric the 
problem disappears. Also it is only an IPv4 problem as IPv6 is fine 
(also going through Hurricane Electric).

A traceroute shows everything ok until the first hop inside the Amazon 
network. The peering is apparently at AMS-IX.

Right now we are ok because I am keeping the HE.Net connection down, but 
I managed to find another NLNOG Ring node that has the same problem:

gigabit at casablanca01:~$ ping 52.16.0.2
PING 52.16.0.2 (52.16.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 52.16.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=35.1 ms
64 bytes from 52.16.0.2: icmp_seq=34 ttl=244 time=35.2 ms
64 bytes from 52.16.0.2: icmp_seq=44 ttl=244 time=35.2 ms
64 bytes from 52.16.0.2: icmp_seq=52 ttl=244 time=35.2 ms
^C
--- 52.16.0.2 ping statistics ---
72 packets transmitted, 4 received, 94% packet loss, time 71228ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.170/35.220/35.251/0.232 ms

That IP is one from eu-west-1 taken from the ec2-reachability page. When 
I ping it with the HE.Net link down there is 0% packet loss. With it up 
we are seeing something like the above. However I notice that Casablanca 
is going out through Telia not HE. The return path could very well be 
via HE of course, there is no way to know that.