There are two Availability Zone in a VPC, I would like to access instances which are in one Availability Zone when the other availability zones is down. Doesn't matter Private or Public instances.
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2Need more description. exactly what you are planning to achieve with which AWS services? – mahendra rathod Jul 18 '19 at 15:23
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This is what im practicing right now, correct me if im wrong! So, I've created a VPC and Launched instances in 2 different availability zones. My Question is when one of the availability zone is down will i able to still access the instances which are in that AZ. and how? – roshni k Jul 18 '19 at 15:26
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Can we access the instances using NAT gateway? – roshni k Jul 18 '19 at 15:28
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No, you won't be able to log in on instance which are in the down az. – mahendra rathod Jul 18 '19 at 15:32
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Lets take AZ1 is down & AZ2 is Up. Now can i use the instances which are in AZ1 thru AZ2 ? Or is there any other way to access them – roshni k Jul 18 '19 at 15:36
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No you can not access it & there is no way to access it. – mahendra rathod Jul 18 '19 at 15:56
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Great Thank YOu! – roshni k Jul 18 '19 at 17:03
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If an availability zone is 'down' you will not be able to (reliably at least) access any of the resources in it - An AZ is essentially an entire data centre in one geographic location, so it being down means that something is going pretty wrong (eg security incident, earthquake, power outage etc).
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