X-Flare takes down Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, Pinterest?

Amazon Web Services outage takes down Reddit, Netflix, Pinterest

TechSpot‎ - by Shawn Knight‎ - 5 hours ago

Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Monday that resulted in downtime for many popular web destinations and services.

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Amazon Web Services outage takes down Reddit, Netflix, Pinterest

By Shawn Knight

On October 23, 2012, 8:30 AM EST

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Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Monday that resulted in downtime for many popular web destinations and services. Issues began at a Northern Virginia data center that caused a chain reaction across the Internet spanning several hours.
It started out innocently enough as a few major websites and services like Github, Minecraft and Reddit were among the first affected. As the day progressed, more sites and services were added to the list. Before it was all said and done, Airbnb, FastCompany, Fliboard, FourSquare and Pinterest were all experiencing downtime.
Frustrated site owners and readers took to Twitter to voice their concerns and let people know what was going on.
Amazon hasn’t offered up an official explanation as of writing but a spokesperson did point out that the outage was not the result of a hacking attempt as claimed by Anonymous. Tera Randall from Amazon said the problems were limited to a single zone of the company’s service, thus only affecting customers in that zone.

A quick check of most services reveals business as usual but there’s no doubt that some are a bit concerned by the outage. After all, this isn’t the first time that Amazon Web Services have suffered massive outages.
A major storm knocked out a large chunk of Amazon’s EC2 service in July, resulting in downtime for Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest. Similar events took place in April 2011 that affected the Amazon EC2 service and Amazon RDS Service.
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Amazon Web Services outage takes down Reddit, Netflix, Pinterest

The most likely culprit would be Sunspots, X-Flares etc. this week and last. Remember, Alaska Air Lines computers were down for 5 hours on the 8th,  GPS satellites and more were either knocked down or turned off as a precaution in the past week or so as well. Now, with another X-Flare this week this kind of thing only seems to be increasing in it's problematic nature for all computer magnetic memories and systems worldwide and all satellites worldwide. cloud computing would also be vulnerable because of the way it is configured as well. I think home laptops might be the least harmed directly because they have resident memory and aren't configured through satellites the way all ATM transactions are. When I tried to buy gas with an ATM last week heading for Southern California the satellites were down for the station I bought gas at. The ONLY way to buy gas there was by cash. 

It might be useful to have more cash on hand while these solar storms are affecting all ATM transactions especially at gas stations.