The sites knocked offline by Amazon’s problems include social media hub Reddit, the HootSuite link-sharing tool, and Quora.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Major Amazon Outage Ripples Across Web
Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on April 21, experienced as latency issues for people using resources at one of its Northern Virginia data centers. The problems are rippling through to customers, causing downtime for many services that use Amazon’s cloud to run their web services.
The sites knocked offline by Amazon’s problems include social media hub Reddit, the HootSuite link-sharing tool, and Quora.
The sites knocked offline by Amazon’s problems include social media hub Reddit, the HootSuite link-sharing tool, and Quora.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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