Monday, 25 April 2011
Amazon's Cloudy Communications Make Bad Situation Worse
The collapse of Amazon Web Services' Elastic Cloud Compute left several large websites out of commission on Thursday. Amazon reportedly attributed the problems to what it called "a networking event" that caused runaway re-mirroring of Elastic Block Storage volumes. The resulting cascade took down hundreds, possibly thousands, of websites, including Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora and Reddit.
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