AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected results

It seems as though AWS have brought a new AZ online in eu-west-2 (London) today with very little fanfare or indeed without telling their support staff. It appears as eu-west-2d. No AWS docs yet reflect this change.

Wanted to give anyone who uses this region a heads up just in case - at a client site it has caused a widespread bunch of issues as a result of Terraform failures etc. Depending on your codebase resources might be torn down and recreated unexpectedly. You can argue the case for whether this should cause you issues or not given this is the cloud etc but I just wanted to try and save someone else some hours of head scratching.

aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-2 --all-availability-zones --query 'AvailabilityZones[].[ZoneName,ZoneID,ZoneTYpe,State,OptInStatus,Messages]' [ [ "eu-west-2a", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ], [ "eu-west-2b", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ], [ "eu-west-2c", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ], [ "eu-west-2d", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ],

6 points | by eddie_catflap 1 day ago

1 comments

  • mobo1972 23 hours ago
    You can askAWS for the eu-west-2d to be suppressed and get all your accounts exempted, so that you can prepare your platform configs
    • eddie_catflap 21 hours ago
      Not according to our TAM who said that wasn’t possible, nor was a backout forthcoming and they had no inkling that this was going to happen. They didn’t even know it had happened until support tickets came in.

      We’ve terraformed our way past this but that’s hundreds of man hours in the org today, god knows how many across their client base.