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From The Verge:
Amazon's web hosting services are among the most widely used out there, which means that when Amazon's servers goes down, a lot of things go down with them. That appears to be happening today, with Amazon reporting "high error rates" in one region of its S3 web services, and a number of services going offline because of it.
Trello, Quora, IFTTT, and Splitwise all appear to be offline, as are websites built with the site-creation service Wix; GroupMe seems to be unable to load assets (The Verge's own image system, which relies on Amazon, is also down); and Alexa is struggling to stay online, too. Nest's app was unable to connect to thermostats and other devices for a period of time as well.
Isitdownrightnow.com also appears to be down as a result of the outage.
Amazon has suffered brief outages before that have knocked offline services including Instagram, Vine, and IMDb. There don't appear to be any truly huge names impacted by this outage so far, but as always, its effects are widespread due to just how many services — especially smaller ones — rely on Amazon.
There's no estimate on when service will be restored, but Amazon says it is "actively working on remediating the issue."
PS - BTW - thumbs up to our great behind the scenes guys! Good luck N.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by rob_on_earth on Wednesday March 01 2017, @07:55AM (4 children)
spent 3 hrs last night trying to get my Pebble watch to work on a new phone. All the watch faces had copied across except one(the only one I wanted). I must have just hit the S3 problems as the last one started copying. I Assumed its Pebble taking down servers but they have pledged not to do that until end of 2017 at the earliest. All working again this morning.
Back in December 2013 I tried to use Google Docs for the first time. Created a test document saved OK so I stated writing. An hour later the first recorded significant downtime of Google apps occurred and I have been fearful of cloud/internet centralised services ever since.
Guess I am just lucky.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @08:31AM (2 children)
Ladies and gentlemen, we found the culprit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @02:47PM (1 child)
having a watch that doesnt work right because a data center thousands of miles away is broke... that's crazy.
I think I m ay stick to winding the watch if I want reliable timekeeping. Even if it drifts a few minutes, it at least won't be inoperable if someone else thousands of miles away makes a mistake unrelated to my ability to wear a watch.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 01 2017, @11:22PM
I would also consider that, should some perturbation/cosmic ray apocalypse hit your region and fry electronics, the only way to coordinate with others, set meetings, is through old fashioned watches.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:24PM
Obviously they are very effective on that.