The “Break it Down” Blog

Please Write Your State Representa… PSYCHE! Just Kidding

With the country up in arms over the $700bn bailout vote through the house but now getting ready to be voted on in the Senate, a lot of Americans want their voices heard on the issue… and heard immediately! Fortunately for us, visiting House.gov and writing to our representative is as easy as clicking the helpful [...]

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Amazon is/was Down

Wow what caused that to happen? Amazon has been down for about 20mins, came back up briefly and is dead again right now around 11:08am PST. S3 and EC2 both seem to be running fine though, so maybe it’s just the store front? I wonder what caused Amazon to go down that wouldn’t/doesn’t effect eBay or [...]

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Amazon S3 Suffers Quick, Massive Outage

Ruh-roh… Marc Chung sends in news that Amazon’s huge S3 storage service went down for 3 hours this morning. While it seems like a petty issue, Amazon uses the service to host most of their own content, in addition to entire companies/websites running off of S3 like Twitter and SmugMug. Looks like things are back up [...]

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