No foolproof cloud (Major Amazon Outage)

[Ink]

Whether it's Amazon or Microsoft, there's (still) no foolproof cloud

A day later, the Web is abuzz with news about an Amazon EC2 outage (going on 10 hours as I type this post) that seems to be centered around the company’s cloud storage components.

Major Amazon Outage Ripples Across Web

When a busy cloud computing platform crashes, the impact is felt widely. That’s the case with today’s extended outage for Amazon Web Services, which is battling latency issues 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, the popular question-and-answer service Quora, and even a Facebook app for Microsoft (see a full list of affected sites).

Links:
AWS Service Health Dashboard
Azure Service Health Dashboard

 

[LaserWraith]

Yes, I noticed this. I'm helping a friend who does social media stuff with Hootsuite, and this outage has affected their service. :/