Amazon Server Outage Affects Millions of Companies and Causes Online Chaos!
Greetings to ALL from Adelaide in South Australia!
Amazon Server Outage Affects Millions of Companies and Causes Online Chaos...
Good morning, afternoon or evening depending on where you live in the world!
I'll probably get into trouble for doing this, however, I felt this news release just released about 10 minutes ago may well be affecting many of us here at Wealthy Affiliate.
This article was released by Rod Chester, National Technology Writer, News Corp Australia Network...8 minutes ago...
"AMAZON’S giant servers crashed today causing chaos for millions of companies and people 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. The result is that a long list of major websites including Medium, Slack and the Harvard Business Review went offline and other sites, including Yahoo, experiencing problems.
Other affected sites include Adobe, Pinterest, AirBnB, Expedia and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
The outage has also affected parts of News Corp Australia’s sites.
Netflix, which also uses Amazon servers, reported problems this morning with its email system.
Apple’s Cloud services also suffered performance issues this morning believed to be linked to the Amazon outage."
I felt this information was too important not to pass on to the WA community, as I'm sure many of you who are running Amazon Stores might be wondering what the heck is going on.
I am sorry if anybody is offended BY this 'SPAM IS A NO NO' MESSAGE!
I hope your downtime is kept to a minimum if you have been affected!
All the best to everyone...
Steve :)
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The earth is still rotating on its axis, and so far, the sun seems to be setting in the west, so I'm good......not to sound insensitive, people act as if man-made devices will never fail, crash or falter in any way....
I know...it's crazy!
What you're waiting for is still on the way...
My laptop froze up about 3 hours ago, but it seems to have stopped spitting the dummy!
I tried your advice but it didn't work! lol
Yeah, whenever there's some sort of glitch within WA, I know I don't have to ask anything, because within seconds of the glitch ocurring, 100 people have already created a post, asking the exact same question. I find it rather amusing....didn't have snacks this time during the entertainment, but I did manage to throw in a few jokes.....seize the momement I always sayl!!
OK....I'm done with that....regarding your laptop.....you lack that New York swagger Steve....you know it...I know it...your laptop knows it...no desputing that you are now and forever Da Beast, but it's still just a few notches under that New York Swag.....
Yes, one of the risks of having your sites hosted by a 3rd-party provider. But then, I've found 3rd-party providers to be much less expensive and much more stable than self-hosting unless you can build yourself a full data center. Good thing most services are being restored by now! :)
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Thanks Steve
My pleasure Graham :)