Instagram, Vine, Reddit Downed by Amazon: Cloud or Hackers?

reddit_Amazondown_webInstagram, Vine, Reddit Downed by Amazon: Cloud or Hackers?. Instagram, Vine, Reddit and other popular apps and sites were affected when Amazon Web Services went down for about 60 minutes on Sunday.   The Cloud (EC2) service is popular with many apps and sites, including Netflix, IFTTT, Flipboard, AirBnB, Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Heroku, and Hootsuite.   Although a few outages were reported until late last night, the Amazon Service Health Dashboard now reports all is well.  Amazon said the issues were localized to its North Virginia data center.

Just last week, Amazon.com was down for 30 minutes, causing the company to lose millions.  According to e-commerce experts 500 Friends, the estimated 2012 revenue for Amazon was $9,823 every five seconds, or $117,882 per minute.  Humm, you do the math.  Ebay and another giant, Google, were also having problems last week.  Google was offline for 2 minutes.  Seems small enough, but that outage killed 40% of the world’s Internet traffic (and I am sure the lost revenue figures there are staggering.)

This series of events would seem to indicate that the “Cloud” is not particularly stable lately… or secure?  Is this mere coincidence or are the latest events related to the recent – and persistent – hacker activity aimed at some of the largest companies in the U.S., especially technology ones?  Details are few and very matter of fact.  We wonder.

Rosa Alonso

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