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Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:05 PM

Amazon Broke the Internet Again

Source: The Atlantic Wire

Earlier today a bunch of sites, including the front page of the Internet itself, weren't working because Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute service, or EC2, which hosts many websites sites, was down. As Beta Beat's Jessica Roy notes, when Internetters went to Reddit.com they got the pleasant (but also horrifying) message above. For some, the problem still persists. But it's working fine from the Wire's D.C. office (our New York HQ is still Reddit-less) and TechCrunch's Roman Dillet confirms it's back to normal for "most people." Reddit Status, the Twitter handle that first acknowledged the "network related issue," however hasn't said everything is "back to normal." In addition to Reddit, Roy notes GitHub, Heroku, Imgur, Turntable, Airbnb and MongoLab are also not working.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-broke-internet-again-190022002.html



A lot of sites are still affected by this.

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WilliamPitt Oct 2012 OP
crazylikafox Oct 2012 #1
randome Oct 2012 #2
truthisfreedom Oct 2012 #5
randome Oct 2012 #9
muriel_volestrangler Oct 2012 #10
PoliticAverse Oct 2012 #12
Ezlivin Oct 2012 #14
nolabels Oct 2012 #21
kentauros Oct 2012 #20
BlueStreak Oct 2012 #6
randome Oct 2012 #8
longship Oct 2012 #3
Ian David Oct 2012 #4
Ian David Oct 2012 #7
GeorgeGist Oct 2012 #11
dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #13
high density Oct 2012 #15
FailureToCommunicate Oct 2012 #16
melissinha Oct 2012 #17
Hutzpa Oct 2012 #18
WilliamPitt Oct 2012 #19
Historic NY Oct 2012 #22

Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:08 PM

1. I guess too many people were watching that Mormon video on Reddit

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:08 PM

2. Um...'including the front page of the Internet itself'?

Is this satire?

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Response to randome (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:19 PM

5. reddit apparently calls itself the front page of the internet.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:26 PM

9. I did not know that. Thanks.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:29 PM

10. And The Atlantic is happy to spread the PR hype, it seems (nt)

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Response to truthisfreedom (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:59 PM

12. If the Internet has a front page it's called 'google'... n/t

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Response to PoliticAverse (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 05:46 PM

14. You get a downvote for this

Google is evil, Reddit is not.

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Response to Ezlivin (Reply #14)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:55 PM

21. Much worse than evil, it's all knowing

Don't believe? go ahead, ask it a question

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Response to truthisfreedom (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 07:05 PM

20. So which pages constitute

The Cover
The Title Page
The Masthead
The Copyright Page
The Table of Contents
The Acknowledgements and Thanks Page
The Foreword
The Introduction Page
?

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Response to randome (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:20 PM

6. If all the trees in the forest dissappear and nobody can make pulp to report on the news

the the trees actually fall at all?

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Response to BlueStreak (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:26 PM

8. There would probably be security video of it happening, posted on UTube so...yeah.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:09 PM

3. DU has been very dodgy today.

So I went to another favorite site. No go, too. I tried another and it worked. Then, another and it wouldn't load.

Things have been screwy today.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:10 PM

4. Turntable is working. I'm using it right now.

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Response to Ian David (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:24 PM

7. It looks like it just died again.

Last edited Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:25 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

http://turntable.fm/down

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:46 PM

11. Just testing.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 05:11 PM

13. I told you that would happen.

Remember all the chatter about Cloud services?
AKA: Eggs in one basket.

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Response to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #13)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 05:59 PM

15. That's why Amazon has more than one data center in the USA

It seems many (fairly big internet) companies are too cheap to purchase redundant service in a different location or they aren't properly set up to distribute the load around an affected location.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:27 PM

16. Speaking of Amazon...MUST SEE comment section of their "binder" offering!!


link:
http://www.amazon.com/Avery-Durable-Binder-EZ-Turn-17032/dp/B001B0CTMU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1350658807&sr=8-5&keywords=binders+3+ring

Here is a sample:

"5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a Binder Mom October 18, 2012
By Maia Appleby
Color Name:White
I'm proud to say that I'm in this binder. I've spend 20 years working my way up from Walmart mom to soccer mom, and finally, I've hit the glass ceiling. I'm a binder mom! I highly recommend this binder I'm in, but be aware that if you purchase it, you must be flexible and let me put a ham in the oven by 5. Otherwise, my kids might resort to gun violence.
15 Comments |
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So while someone like Mitt or his interns will love these binders, save your money and go for the binders without women and get your own if you want a solid product. ”
droid | 137 reviewers made a similar statement

My advice is to be very careful when ordering, because what I received were binders full of men. ”
Muldoon0 | 66 reviewers made a similar statement

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:28 PM

17. My company lost a lot due to this

Amazon's cloud hosts a big chunk of websites, particularly E-Commerce, my company lost a lot of business due to this snafu, on our biggest traffic day of the week of course. Get it it together Amazon!

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:29 PM

18. Does the internet have a front page?

I've never seen it.

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Response to Hutzpa (Reply #18)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:44 PM

19. I guess Reddit

is what the writer was referring to.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:49 AM

22. Errrrrr no wonder I wasn't getting anywhere.

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