warning Hi, we've moved to USCANNENBERGMEDIA.COM. Visit us there!

Neon Tommy - Annenberg digital news

Science+Tech

Amazon Crash Takes Down Other Sites

Comments (1)
| amazon, cloud proviodr, connection issues, daily beast, data center, glitch, go daddy, Internet, NBC news, netflix, pintrest, Reddit, Science+Tech, Twitter
Hannah Madans |
October 22, 2012 | 9:32 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Creative Commons
Creative Commons
A temporary Amazon outage Monday affected other websites, including Netflix, Reddit, Fliboard, Pintrest and The Daily Beast's commenting system because Amazon is one of the biggest cloud-based service providers.

Amazon blamed the crash on "connectivity issues," reports the Daily Beast.

Amazon attributed the issues to servers in Virginia.

A Twitter user claimed responsibility. The same Twitter user took responsibility for last week's Go Daddy crash, which the company denied, according to NBC News. The Twitter user calls themselves "Anonymous Own3r."

Amazon data centers also had problems last June and in 2011 a few sites were down for multiple days.

Reach Executive Producer Hannah Madans here.



 

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.