Ask HN: How often do your EBS volumes fail?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495534Maybe it's something unique to our setup, but we find that our Amazon EBS volumes fail approximately once every 1 - 2 months. We are running a pretty normal Mysql server through RightScale with fairly low traffic. And yet, without fail every month or two our main database will die because the EBS store "goes away"