Amazon Cloud Crash Takes Down Publishers Weekly, Reddit & Other Sites

A crash at Amazon Web Services yesterday has affected service at scores of popular sites, from Publishers Weekly to Reddit. Perhaps we should all reflect on how much of our reading and writing now resides in vulnerable cloud storage.

Publishers Weekly tweeted the news:  “The Publishers Weekly Web site is still down. We hope it will be live again soon.”  Reddit is currently running in “emergency mode.”

Here’s more from eBookNewser: “Amazon (the tech company, not the website) has been having some troubles today with its cloud servers. A number of sites, including Wattpad, Hootsuite and Reddit have all gone down … it might surprise you to learn that it is one of the major hosting providers on the Internet. It doesn’t just host small private and business websites; it also hosts some of the biggest and highest traffic sites like Wattpad or Netflix.”

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