Amazon server outage hits huge companies
AMAZON'S giant servers crashed today causing chaos for millions of companies that use the cloud service and affected everything from larger web sites to people's smarthomes and even library catalogues.
Amazon reported problems early this morning with the S3 storage system in Virginia.
Rather than call it an outage, Amazon said it was experiencing "increased error rates" for the service.
Amazon S3 according to the #AWS status page. pic.twitter.com/WpMAyHs0nY
— David C. Campbell (@DCCampbell) February 28, 2017
The result is that a long list of major websites including Medium and the Harvard Business Review went offline and other sites, including Yahoo, experiencing problems.
Netflix, which also uses Amazon servers, reported problems this morning with its email system.
Trying to explain to clients that it's AWS US-East's fault our platform is down. pic.twitter.com/VvSBmdsV7w
— Lisandro (@lisandropa) February 28, 2017
Apple's Cloud services also suffered performance issues this morning believed to be linked to the Amazon outage.
The outage cause massive problems for many internet of Things services, from thermostats to smart light bulbs, with Nest including one of the companies affected.
Sure, there's loads of benefits to Amazon AWS. Like it being the one place super villains need to destroy to take down the whole Internet
— Kean Richmond (@keanrichmond) February 28, 2017
"We've identified the issue as high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is also impacting applications and services dependent on S3. We are actively working on remediating the issue," Amazon said.
