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The Amazon S3 Outage Is What Happens When One Site Hosts Too Much of the Internet

March 1, 2017 /

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If youv’e been having trouble using some of your favorite apps today, you’re not alone. Users have reported trouble with sites and apps like Medium, Slack, and Trello.

The problems seem to stem from trouble with Amazon’s cloud storage service S3, which Amazon confirmed is experiencing "high error rates," particularly on the East Coast. Several other Amazon services appear to be having problems as well, but countless sites rely on S3 to host images and other files. Even Amazon’s site itself relies on S3, leading to some baffling updates from the company.

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Full Story: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/happens-one-site-hosts-entire-internet/

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