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\"SCVNGRSCVNGR and other sites took to Twitter after a rare and major outage of Amazon’s cloud-based Web service.<\/strong><\/span> By Julianne Pepitone<\/a>, staff reporter<\/span>April 21, 2011: 3:47 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A rare and major outage of Amazon’s cloud-based Web service on Thursday took down a plethora of other online sites, including Reddit, HootSuite, Foursquare and Quora.<\/p>\n

On its Web services “Health Dashboard<\/a>,” Amazon says that it is “investigating instance connectivity, latency and error rates” that started at 4:41 a.m. ET Thursday . The outages are at Amazon’s northern Virginia data center.<\/p>\n

Amazon (AMZN<\/a>, Fortune 500<\/a>) hosts many major websites on its web servers through a service called EC2. The “elastic” infrastructure model is designed to scale up automatically to handle giant traffic spikes — the kind Amazon gets every year during its December e-commerce rush.<\/p>\n

Thousands of customers hitch a ride on Amazon’s cloud<\/a>, renting space on its servers. Some of them went down Thursday in the wake of Amazon’s outage.<\/p>\n

Amazon representatives did not immediately return calls for comment.<\/p>\n

Who was crashed:<\/strong> Q&A site Quora<\/a> posted on its homepage: “We’ll be back shortly, we hope. Sorry – it sucks for us too. We’d point fingers, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without EC2.”<\/p>\n

News aggregator Reddit had resumed some functionality by midday, but it still noted on its homepage that “Amazon is experiencing a degradation…We are still waiting on them to get to our volumes.”<\/p>\n

Foursquare suffered some glitches earlier in the day, but its site seemed to be functioning normally by early afternoon.<\/p>\n

Another location-based service, SCVNGR, tweeted<\/a>: “The sky is falling! Amazon’s cloud seems to be down (raining?) so we’re experiencing some issues too. Be back soon!”<\/p>\n

Popular Twitter client HootSuite posted its avian-inspired “homepage down” message: “Owls need a break sometimes too. We’ll be back in action shortly — in the meantime go outside and flap your arms around, you may find that flying ain’t very easy.”<\/p>\n

Jason Glassberg, co-founder of security outfit Casaba LLC, called the issue “a big ol’ black eye” for Amazon.<\/p>\n

“Reliability is probably the<\/em> No. 1 concern with cloud services,” he said. “Amazon has worked long and hard to convince folks that their services were robust. This does not help the cause.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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