Amazon hosting servers go down

TAKING A GOOD CHUNK OF THE ‘NET WITH IT.

Issues at Amazon’s Northern Virginia server farm recently caused widespread outage that impacted numerous cloud-based businesses, websites and services that use the company’s S3 web-based storage service. The five-hour breakdown not only ‘broke’ the internet for millions of users, but even disrupted IoT devices and stalled updates on the Amazon Web Services dashboard. It ironically even brought down outage monitoring sites like DownDetector and isitdownrightnow.com SS