Amazon Web Services were impacted in some areas on Sunday, six days after Web stores in the U.S. and Canada went down for about 30 minutes, causing losses estimated at up to $45 million. The latest outage lasted about an hour and impacted Facebook’s Instagram, Twitter’s Vine and Airbnb, among others. Amazon blamed the problem on a networking device that caused packet losses, which it replaced. The AWS service health dashboard indicated that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and its relational database service in Northern Virginia were affected.
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AWS: The Cloud Is Falling
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 26, 2013 02:20 PMAmazon Web Services were impacted in some areas on Sunday, six days after Web stores in the U.S. and Canada went down for about 30 minutes, causing losses estimated at up to $45 million. The latest outage lasted about an hour and impacted Facebook’s Instagram, Twitter’s Vine and Airbnb, among others. Amazon blamed the problem on a networking device that caused packet losses, which it replaced. The AWS service health dashboard indicated that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and its relational database service in Northern Virginia were affected.