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AWS meltdown takes down a lot of important sites

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/aws_is_awol_as_s3_goes_haywire/

Amazon Web Services is scrambling to recover from a cockup at its
facility in Virginia, US, that is causing its S3 cloud storage to fail.

The internet giant has yet to reveal the cause of the breakdown, which
is plaguing storage buckets hosted in the US-East-1 region. The malady
kicked off around 0944 Pacific Time (1744 UTC) today.

It has led to major websites and services – including Imgur, Medium and
the Docker Registry Hub – falling offline, losing images, or left
running like treacle. We're also hearing loads of media titles that use
S3 to serve pictures, plus Runkeeper, Trello, and Yahoo webmail, are
all suffering: basically, this outage has knackered half the internet,
it seems, because it all relies on S3 to store data online.

Just to stress: this is one S3 region that has become inaccessible, yet
web apps are tripping up and vanishing as their backend evaporates away.


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RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>

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AWS meltdown takes down a lot of important sites RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-02-28 15:08 -0500

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