The cloud is growing, but cloud outages are nothing new. And neither are we. InformationWeek was first founded in 1985 and our online archives go back to 1998. Here are just a few lowlights from the cloud's worst moments, dug up from our archives.
Amazon went down for thousands of users for a couple of hours as the e-commerce portal pages did not load at all, displayed error messages, or loaded slowly with missing information. 📲 Amazon Down: E-Commerce Portal Suffers Outage With Error Messages for Thousands of Shoppers.
Amazon Outage is experienced again for the third time caused by a single data center. Amazon Web Services including Slack, Asana, and Epic Games were affected. Amazon’s third outage was experienced in Washington, D.C. New York, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, and other major U.S. cities.