Friday, April 22, 2011

Amazon Mistake Takes Down Websites

Scores of well-noted websites have been not available for considerable tools of Thursday since problems with Amazon's web hosting service.

Foursquare, Reddit and Quora were amid the sites taken offline by the glitch.

Amazon EC2 is the retailer's clouded cover computing business. It provides estimate power and storage to companies that do not have their own information centres.

No reason has so far been given is to outage.

Visitors to the website of location-based amicable network Foursquare were greeted by an apology.

"Our often extraordinary datacentre hosts, Amazon EC2, are having a couple of hiccups this morning, that affected us and a garland of other services that use them.

"Everything looks to be getting back to normal now," read the statement.

Amazon's clouded cover service final strike the headlines when it motionless to end hosting a mirrored chronicle of the Wikileaks website.

Like a number of American-owned web hosts, it had advance beneath pressure from the US supervision over the leaking of trusted State Department files.

Several of the web services that took action against Wikileaks suffered repartee attacks by hackers.

However, at this stage, there is nothing to indicate that the many new outage was connected to the Wikileaks controversy.

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