Amazon crashes major websites
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According to the BBC scores of well-known websites have been unavailable for large parts of Thursday because of problems with Amazon’s web hosting service.
Foursquare, Reddit and Quora were among the sites taken offline by the glitch.
Amazon EC2 is the retailer’s cloud computing business. It provides processing power and storage to companies that do not have their own data centres.
No reason has so far been given for the outage.
Visitors to the website of location-based social network Foursquare were greeted by an apology.
“Our usually amazing datacentre hosts, Amazon EC2, are having a few hiccups this morning, which affected us and a bunch of other services that use them.
“Everything looks to be getting back to normal now,” read the statement.
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I need to learn more about this “cloud” phenomena. I am fascinated by it but clearly it doesn’t work all the time.
How can this happen to a huge company like Amazon? Those crashed sites will be losing all sorts of revenue.