Hum Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 NEW YORK ? Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability Thursday because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com. The problems revealed widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services, which rents out computers and data storage on a self-service basis over the Internet. AWS is generally considered reliable because it uses vast numbers of computers, spread out in different data centers, making Thursday's failure unusual. Amazon said the trouble started early in the morning at a data center in Northern Virginia, but provide no details. The problems were ongoing Thursday afternoon. Foursquare, which lets people tell others where they are with the help of cellphone GPS chips, was still experiencing technical issues. HootSuite, which provides a "dashboard" for social media like Twitter feeds, was down completely, as was questions-and-answers site Quora. Reddit, a "social news" site owned by Conde Nast Digital, was in "emergency read-only mode." Amazon.com Inc. is the leading provider of this type of "utility" computing, where customers pay only for the computing power and storage they need. Anyone with a credit card can begin using it. Competitors include Rackspace Hosting Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s Azure platform. more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh400 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 What about PSN does PSN use Amazon Cloud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Zollo Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 My beloved Reddit is down :( What the hell am I supposed to do at work now? Curse you, Amazon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoko Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 That must be why Cinemassacre is down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyph Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Yeah Ive been goin nuts since Reddit is down :( read-only mode is boring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 reddit y u no work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamawesomewicked Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 What about PSN does PSN use Amazon Cloud? Yes it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardK Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I am glad this happened. Shows everyone that these "cloud" services are not fail proof. Why they have to call them "cloud" is I guess a Microsoft thing. It's just Internet based services, nothing new. Everything is prone to failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 22, 2011 MVC Share Posted April 22, 2011 That must be why Cinemassacre is down. That site is up for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 yeah vyou.com was down, boxofficemojo.com is still down and several others i use are either down now or were yesterday as a result of amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s1k3sT Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 not being able to use reddit is driving me nuts! I've started posting news articles here more often though... :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoko Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 That site is up for me Yeah, Reddit is back too. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudtrooper Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I interviewed at amazon and they were oh so proud of their hodge-podge system that they laughed at you for speaking of any other experiences with enterprise storage/san/nas or other "cloud" concepts.. and now, look who is laughing. ha ha ha :p BTW, i never realized how big of a hell hole working there was until i did the interview process.. I should have read glassdoor first and not wasted my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibs Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I interviewed at amazon and they were oh so proud of their hodge-podge system that they laughed at you for speaking of any other experiences with enterprise storage/san/nas or other "cloud" concepts.. and now, look who is laughing. ha ha ha :p Bit harsh there? I believe Amazon's cloud services are like the third most used (could be wrong so don't quote me on that) and if you check their status page: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ It's pretty much all green all over the world (apart from today and with N.Virginia only). Failures happen :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Failures happen :/ Which is why being reliant on other companies and placing all your eggs in the cloud, is just gonna end up in a messy omelette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralDogma Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Yes it does. You sure about that. I've heard PSN was offline to prevent an intrusion: An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomZ Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Themoviedb which is a scraper for XBMC was also down. Annoying as hell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted April 24, 2011 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2011 Giantbomb was down. I was, devastated :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted April 25, 2011 Member Share Posted April 25, 2011 Like they say, crap happens. We lived through it and we'll live through the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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