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Skype Outage Hassles Millions of Users
Multiple sources are reporting that Microsoft's popular messaging and voice chat application Skype has been hit by a severe service outage.
The problem seems to be a bug in the application which affects users from seeing each other. Microsoft has stated that they have found the cause of the problem and is slowly working to restore service, however at the time of this writing it seems that a number of global users are still affected.
Link to official Skype status: Skype Heartbeat.
I've been planning to move away from Skype for a while, but its popularity is making it somewhat difficult (akin to the Facebook dilemma: everyone uses it, why switch?) and this outage has underscored the need for redundancy, especially for some things that users view as essential for connectivity. What other similar applications can Soylent recommend?
AWS knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb offline in MEGA data collapse
Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have been hit by a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing many sites down with it in the process.
The service disruption has hit AWS customers including Netflix, Tinder and IMDb, as well as Amazon's Instant Video and Books websites.
The outage may also explain Airbnb's current service woes. Airbnb is an AWS customer.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @06:42AM
Hey, jerks. You know there are other regions than US East, right?
I've been using AWS heavily for five years straight and I never have outages. But I never run anything in US East.
There are so many other regions to choose from, see? Here's a helpful list of other regions you can use. You like lists.
US West Oregon
US West California
EU Ireland
EU Frankfurt
Asia Pacific Singapore
Asia Pacific Tokyo
Asia Pacific Sydney
South America Sao Paulo
Why put everything in US East Virginia? It's not even the cheapest. US West Oregon costs the same, and it's not overloaded all the time.
Stop putting everything in US East. You're causing your own outages because you're overloading US East. Stop putting everything in US East.
You won't stop putting everything in US East, will you? Of course you won't. Enjoy your outages, fuckwits!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @04:08PM
They put stuff in US East because that is where their customers are clustered.
The issue is the apparent lack of redundancy on the part of the AWS customer in that they are ONLY putting their eggs in the US East basket.