Amazon web services outage effecting SlideShare.net
Jul 20, 01:49 pm PST
Amazon S3, the service that we use to host slideshows, images, and PowerPoint files, is almost completely down this morning. This is causing sections of slideshare.net to not work. For example, uploaded files are not converting, and the slideshow player that you use to view slideshows isn’t loading.
This is effecting many many sites (here’s a nice blog post from SmugMug, for example). I’m confident that they’ll restore service soon … it’s been about two hours so far. You can keep track of Amazon Web Services status here. I’ll post here again when service has been successfully restored.
Uploads are not being lost: they will be converted once the S3 problem has been resolved.
Update 7.30 PM PST:: Amazon S3 outage is over. SlideShare conversion and other parts of the services are back up now.
Jul 20, 3:44 pm
[...] Since roll-out infrastructure itself is affected we cannot independently provide a fix. We would like to apologize to our users and will try to prevent such points of failure in the future. Please bear with us until Amazon fixes their service which should be very soon since there are many services affected. [...]
Jul 20, 9:21 pm
[...] Technologizer) Another site down is Smugmug.com - you can see their message here. Slideshare.net reported problems related to the outage. A video and photo sharing site called Phanfare also reported [...]