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“EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites, Including Foursquare By Barry Levine April 21, 2011 1:54PM
Foursquare and other web sites were affected by problems at Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud data center. Amazon said additional capacity was added to support EC2’s ‘affected availability zone’ in Virginia. The outage is likely to add to the debate about reliability and security when using a vendor data center like Amazon’s EC2. Related Topics Foursquare Amazon EC2 Outage Data Center Security Latest News EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites National Lab Needs Cybersecurity Your iPhone Knows Where You Were U.S. CIO Sets Ambitious Cloud Goals Windows 8: What’s in Store for OS?
Amazon’s cloud -based platform suffered outages Thursday. The company said the problems involved latency and other errors, and it brought down the web sites of Foursquare, Quora, HootSuite, Reddit and other companies. The problems hit the part of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that supports start-ups. In a statement, Amazon said it is ‘now seeing significantly reduced failures and latency,’ and it continues to recover. It added that additional capacity has been brought online to support ‘the affected availability zone.'”
