Amazon server meltdown knocks websites offlineMarch 1, 2017 - 16:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Several high-profile websites and services were knocked offline by a failure at one of Amazon's major US data centres, BBC News reports. Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows firms to rent cloud servers in order to host data on the internet without needing to invest in their own infrastructure. On Tuesday, February 28 sites such as Quora, a Q&A forum, and Trello, which helps people monitor productivity, went down. After several hours, Amazon said it had rectified the problem. It did not make public the reason behind the disruption. As well as sites that went down, other services, such as workplace collaboration tool Slack, also lost some key functionality. Specifically, it was AWS's S3 - which stands for Simple Storage Service - that was affected. To varying degrees it serves around 150,000 sites and services around the world, mostly in the US. AWS is used by some of the web's most recognisable and powerful names including Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb. While none of those services went offline on Tuesday, users did report performance issues and slowdown. US government services such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were also affected. Downtime is a critical issue for any cloud service. Amazon competes with Google, Microsoft and others for what is an increasingly lucrative line of business for the web giants. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |