Thursday, April 21, 2011

Amazon EC2 Issues Take Down Web Sites

A continuing issue with the Amazon.com EC2 cloud computing services has made a major impact on web services today, taking down such services at Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, and others. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service provides cloud-based processing services for many websites. According to Amazon's Service Health Dashboard, Amazon started seeing errors at its N. Virginia site at around 1:41 AM PDT, and had yet to resolve the issues as of 8:12 AM PDT. A number of sites relying on EC2 had service interruptions were unavailable or degraded this morning.