foursquare and Quora are just some of the network services that collapsed due to failure of the hosting servers they are stored in Amazon
For several hours off Internet services, some prominent, hosted on Amazon's computing cloud - the EC2. Including a toilet foursquare, Reddit, Quora and HootSuite. The reason is technical failure Amazon PCs, located in northern Virginia in the United States. As a result there are problems connecting engagement with the services mentioned. True at this hour, website Quora generally does not exceed the company said curtly: "We would point an accusing finger, but we did not get where we arrived without EC2." Hottsuite service users expressed their displeasure at the fall of messages posted on Twitter service, which made the name of the service to one of the most popular topics currently in the service of micro - blogging and some from the Trending Topics. Amazon said it is working on correcting the problem. Fortunately for the company and the services that rely on the EC2 - the problem occurs late at night in the United States, so many potential users do not even feel it. The EC2 service is a key part of Amazon's cloud. It exists since 2006 and allows a virtual space to rent can run sites and applications - so the number of different operating systems. Amazon allows different ways of using and paying for services, and calls the service "elastic." Amazon states that the service provides its users complete control over computing resources, and it provides tools for building "applications for immunity from a fall, distinct from scenarios are common failures." Update: some servers returned to be available.
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