Amazon S3 Crash Hampers Web 2.0 Sites
Posted on July 20, 2008
A crash of Amazon.com's heavily used Amazon S3 storage service has caused problems for many Web 2.0 sites that rely on the service. You can find a status page for Amazon's service here.
Here are a few of the outages and problems.
- Plurk, Twitter and Kwippy are having problems showing images loaded with Amazon A3. It sounds minor but it just isn't as much fun microblogging without the avatars.
- Posterous reported problems posting different types of files.
- Picnik, a web graphics tool, has reported problems.
- Another site down is Smugmug.com.
- Slideshare.net reported problems related to the outage.
- A video and photo sharing site called Phanfare also reported problems.
- More discussion of the outages can be found on Techmeme.
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