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Internet laughs at AWS conference as AWS fails across web
Not so #AWSome after all
Updated 1:14 pm, Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
Double fail.
Double fail.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
The same day an Amazon Web Services conference was happening in the U.K., the service experienced a failure resulting in websites and services being down across the internet.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Twitter reacts to the AWS outage that brought down sites across the internet Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
There is never a good time for web servers to fail, but today is especially bad day.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced issues with its S3 storage service Tuesday morning that broke websites and services across the internet. The problems affected sites like Business Insider, Giphy, Quora, filesharing in Slack and image and video hosting at many publishing sites.
The moment the presenter realizes S3 is down. #AWS #S3 #Amazon pic.twitter.com/S8gY1J9lrH
— Ian Sherwood (@ian_surewould) February 28, 2017
Amazon's status site reported issues -- "high error rates" -- with its East Coast S3 center and said the company was working to resolve the problems. As of writing, this issue was still impacting many of the image and website hosting and backend services that depend on the S3 web-based service.
Amazon S3 engineers rn pic.twitter.com/PxwqckLKGC
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) February 28, 2017
Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
As much of the internet came to a grinding halt, conference attendees were gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland for AWSome Day, which celebrates all things AWS and highlights key features, best practices and product demos.
As you can imagine, things are not going well.
Scroll through the slideshow above to see people's reactions to the outage, and stay AWSome.
