The computing center hosted in northern Virginia, which handles operations for the U.S. East Coast, was afflicted. Websites such as Foursquare, Quora and Reddit have cited service problems. Both Reddit, a user-generated news site, and Quora, a question-and-answer service, had error messages on their sites saying their were experiencing outages.
The outage will not likely have any longer-term impact on cloud computing. Most of us encounter service disruptions from time to time for any of our cloud-based services and applications. More significantly, many of us experience "outages" that have no adverse impact, because we were not trying to use a particular application at a particular time, in a particular region.
These days, browsers, operating systems, local and remote applications can crash. It's just a fact of life.
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