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“Amazon EC2 cloud crashes
RELATED ARTICLES Amazon Web Services gains PCI security approval Cloud customers risk collateral DDoS Police.uk’s EC2-hosted crime site toppled WikiLeaks furious over Amazon ousting WikiLeaks suffers DDoS attack Amazon EC2 GPU becomes password cracker WikiLeaks war logs off Amazon’s US EC2 By Paul Briden Apr 22, 2011 1:38 AM Tags: Amazon | EC2 | Cloud | crashes Reddit, Foursquare, Quora and Hootsuite all fall victim to the downtime. Rumours of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud hosting service going down today turned out to be true when Reddit, Foursquare, Quora and Hootsuite all went with it. Amazon’s Relational Database Service was also affected.
The Virginia based EC2 appears to have started hiccupping around 1.48 AM PDT, which is around 9am UK time. Foursquare, Quora and Reddit all posted messages on their sites explaining the cause of their downtime while Amazon posted continual status updates:”
