“cloud computing does not absolve those responsible for designing and deploying applications from understanding how the dependencies of the underlying platforms impact the availability, resiliency and survivability of their architecture -- regardless of how opaque it may be”
- Chris Hoff

Incident ID: 508

Incident Type:
Outage

Summary: Companies left staggering or totally knocked out because of server problems in the Amazon datacenter

Trouble started early Thursday morning when popular websites like Quora, foursquare and Reddit were left staggering or totally knocked out because of server problems in the Amazon datacenter that handles the company's Web hosting services. While service was restored by 4 p.m. ET to some sites such as Foursquare, Quora was still disabled and Reddit was still being affected.

Number Affected: Unknown
Organization: Amazon Web Services

Affected Service: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Reported Date:	2011-04-21

References	http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216064/Amazon_gets_black_eye_from_cloud_outage http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216036/Amazon_cloud_glitch_knocks_out_popular_websites?taxonomyId=71

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“cloud computing does not absolve those responsible for designing and deploying applications from understanding how the dependencies of the underlying platforms impact the availability, resiliency and survivability of their architecture -- regardless of how opaque it may be” - Chris Hoff

Incident ID: 508

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“cloud computing does not absolve those responsible for designing and deploying applications from understanding how the dependencies of the underlying platforms impact the availability, resiliency and survivability of their architecture -- regardless of how opaque it may be”
- Chris Hoff