Amazon Cloud Woes

Amazon has fought issues with their cloud platform for two days… it looks like they are finally getting it under control.

Amazon’s two-day cloud computing nightmare nears an end

“Amazon appeared to finally have the issues with its Web Services cloud platform under control, saying late Friday afternoon that all but its most ‘time consuming’ volumes had been recovered and were back online. This seems to match up with reports that those websites that depended on Amazon’s cloud were for the most part operating normally.

The partial failure which affected Amazon’s cloud servers in its Northern Virginia facility, occurred early Thursday morning. Several popular websites including Foursquare, Reddit, and Quora were down for much of Thursday, and those issues extended into Friday as well.

As of press time late Friday afternoon, all three websites appeared to be functioning normally or close to it. There could still be some hiccups over the next several hours as volumes continue to be restored, some of which may hold data necessary to use all functionality of those sites.”