What Happened To Amazon’s AWS’S3 Cloud Service For 5 Hours
Thousands of websites and apps were recently hit by the five-hour Amazon outage. Mashable, Verge and other publishers were unable to publish content or post images during the period. The users of Nest smart thermostats too failed on the day to connect via an app. The list of sufferings is long and includes companies like IFTTT, Lonely Planet, Medium, Kickstarter, Muck Rock, News Corp, Quora, Vermont, Airbnb, Pinterest, Snapchat's Bitmoji and VSCO.
The outrage was centered in AWS'S3 storage system, which is largest service of Amazon and used for cloud storage, on the east coast. If believed to experts, the virtual hard drive of the tech giant has about three to four trillion pieces of data stored.
Some of the users reported entire sites went down while many complained of broken li...