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posted by takyon on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the mission-critical-infrastructure dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:40PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:40PM (#473297) Homepage

    We saved about 70% of our hosting costs by moving from a data centre and Google App Engine to AWS. It was a few years ago, but AWS was about half the cost of our data centre, and we got newer/faster hardware and more redundancy along with it.

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