Friday, April 22, 2011

Problems datacenter Amazon affect multiple websites

Several Web sites visited often, as the geolocation service Foursquare site Q & Quora and Reddit, social network information, are experiencing significant technical difficulties since Thursday. "Our hosting datacenter Amazon usually great, has some problems this morning, which affects us as well as several other sites that use its services," said Foursquare, inviting its users to the patient.

The French version of the site is accessible geolocation Friday morning. Reddit, for its part, does Friday that read the information already published on the site. Some pages of the New York Times were also affected by these failures and remain unavailable. AMAZON IMPORTANT PLAYER Amazon cloud computing, known as a giant of online distribution, is also a major supplier of computer services "cloud" (or "cloud"), by renting its servers.

On a page of its site, Amazon last night was part of his problems on servers in Virginia. "We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity," added the group, expressing "progress". The activity of host Amazon had gained some notoriety last year when the group of Seattle had decided not to host the site Wikileaks, which specializes in the publication of confidential information.

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