Amazon EC2 Outage Leaves Major Sites Down
Amazon’s EC2 cloud service experienced some major outages today taking down some major sites like FourSquare, Reddit, and HootSuite. While FourSquare seems to be back up and running HootSuite is still down for the count as you can see by the image below taken just minutes ago:
This is just a reality of the hosting world and if a big dog like Amazon can bite the bullet it can really happen to anyone at any time. The only question in my mind is, why hasn’t it all been fixed yet?