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Skype and Amazon Web Services Outages Hassle Millions

posted by takyon on Tuesday September 22 2015, @05:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the partly-cloudy dept.

Skype Outage Hassles Millions of Users

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Qlaras on Tuesday September 22 2015, @06:55PM

    by Qlaras (3198) on Tuesday September 22 2015, @06:55PM (#240110)

    So when I have a Windows Phone, you've got an Android and Bob over there has an iPhone...how do we all talk since FaceTime and Google Hangouts are proprietary and only available for their OS? So we all have to live within someone's walled garden ecosystem to communicate, and to hell with 'choice' of phone manufacturer...

    (Yes, I know Skype for non-Android Linux has kinda died off...its about the only exception to the "runs everywhere" mantra of Skype)

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday September 22 2015, @07:08PM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 22 2015, @07:08PM (#240116) Journal

    Hangouts is cross platform.
    Facebook video chat is as well.
    There are others, but they are less well known.

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