Amazons fault?
Amazon Disruption Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, said most services were back up. Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald’s and the British government’s official site were among those that reported outages. A disruption involving Amazon Web Services , the cloud service provider that supports much of the internet, took many websites and apps offline for over two hours on Monday, in the latest outage that showed the fragility of the global technology infrastructure. The disruption, which affected websites and apps for some major banks, gaming sites and entertainment services, started shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern. Amazon said in an update at 5:27 a.m. that most websites and apps relying on its services were working normally again, and that it continued “to work through a backlog of queued requests.” Major services were affected, including WhatsApp, the British government’s website and government tax services, the payment...