The companies that were affected by the latest shutdown scrambled to respond.
“Like many other services, we’ve been taken down by the outage,” said Erin Gleason, a spokeswoman for Foursquare, the mobile check-in service. “Both the site and the app are inaccessible right now.”
Ms. Gleason said the company was still awaiting information from Amazon about when its service might be restored.
Another start-up, Airbnb, attempted to reassure its members via Twitter. “Apologies. Our site is having a case of the Mondays,” the company posted.
Amazon Cloud crash takes part of the web offline
Posted on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 12:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck