Due to some serious failure in Amazon data centre in Northern Virginia in United States, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage in the last week of April, affecting thousands of websites that rely on AWS.
Many start-ups and web companies — including some companies in India — who hosted their services in the US East region were affected due to this outage. Major sites that went down include Foursquare and Quora. This is an embarrassing situation for Amazon, the undisputed leader in cloud computing today.
Regards,
Don
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