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Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down
An outage of one company's servers might only affect that company's customers — but when a major data center for Amazon hits kinks, sites that rely on the AWS cloud services all suffer from the downtime. That's what happened today, when several major sites or online services (like Instagram and AirBnB) were knocked temporarily offline, evidently because of problems at an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia. From TechCrunch's coverage of the outage: "The deluge of tweets that accompanied the services’ initial hiccups first started at around 4 p.m. Eastern time, and only increased in intensity as users found they couldn’t share pictures of their food or their meticulously crafted video snippets. Some further poking around on Twitter and beyond revealed that some other services known to rely on AWS — Netflix, IFTTT, Heroku and Airbnb to name a few — have been experiencing similar issues today."
When morons can't watch TV (or equivalent) they fuck. 9 months later you'll see a birth rate spike.
In Soviet Russia, company's customers go down on YOU!
In Soviet Russia, company's customers go down on YOU!
so dirty...
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I thought for sure the first comment would be "I'm on to you NSA...down time for service "upgrades" " I'm disappointed in you my tin foil hat wearing brethren.
You should totally create this. I hear AWS is the way to go to get things online quickly and at scale.
Shouldn't this, technically speaking, be a "bright day" or a "sunny day"? After all, that's what I call it when the cloud-coverage breaks around here.
"In Soviet Russia, company's customers go down on YOU!"
Now we know the truth about why Snowden went there...
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
YOU sir look like a shrewd and discerning businessman. How would you like to buy a bridge?