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.

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