There seems to be a bit of an issue at the moment with Amazon Web Services (AWS), they are reporting a widespread outage on sites from Quora to Slack - MajorGeeks is up, though, thankfully, or I would be rather bored.

Gizmodo pointed out that before Down Detector itself went down, the site showed outages on the tier 1 network Level 3 in most major population centers in the United States.



AWS made a statement saying that they have identified the issue as high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is also impacting applications and services dependent on S3. We are actively working on remediating the issue. We are working hard at repairing S3; we believe we understand the root cause and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue.

So if you are experiencing issues with sites you visit regularly, this indeed may be the cause - or you downloaded something from somewhere other than the safety of MajorGeeks, and you broke the internet. Thanks.

** 2/28/17 16:04 - It appears the issue stems from an unspecified failure at AWS’ Northern Virginia facility (the center of the Internet East), which is also one of the oldest AWS farms.

** 2/28/17 17:08 - AWS reports that they have fully recovered operations for adding new objects in S3, which was the last operation showing a high error rate. The Amazon S3 service is operating normally.