Instagram, Twitter's Vine suffer outages - Indian Express

Associated Press : New York, Mon Aug 26 2013, 10:20 hrs Amazon's unit that runs Web servers for other companies had problems on Sunday that coincided with outages or slowdowns on several popular websites, including Instagram. (Reuters) Amazon's unit that runs Web servers for other companies had problems Sunday that coincided with outages or slowdowns on several popular websites. AirBnB says its site was one of those affected. Other services that were slow or unavailable included Instagram and Twitter's Vine video-sharing application. Online home rental service AirBnB tweeted at 4:32 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) that it was one of several websites and apps that were temporarily down because Amazon server problems. Instagram sent a tweet saying it was aware some users were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on the problem. Vine later sent a similar tweet. Amazon Web Services provides companies with online storage and computing power. Its website showed several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with minor issues remaining. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. At 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) videos posted to Vine appeared to be working. Instagram and AirBnB were functioning but slow. ALSO READ Now, smartphone app that gives pollution alerts to beach-goers in UK Post Steve Ballmer retirement announcement, Microsoft corp takes on Google's Motorola Inc. over patents dispute Micromax, Karbonn beat Apple Inc., Samsung sales in India, China Long before Facebook, first pal was unfriended in 1275! Please read our terms of use before posting comments TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s). via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGnsuYNoTM-XaFz1uVVQzzvlNchCQ&url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/instagram-twitter-s-vine-suffer-outages/1160237/

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