Cabela’s Offers a Discount: A Compensation Fail?

With all of the outages that occurred this week due to Amazon’s server issues we’ve discussed taking the appropriate measures to make your customers happy and what some companies did (or failed to do) in that regard.

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The Day the Internet Died

Maybe we’re being a little melodramatic, but we’re not the only ones who feel like the Amazon outage caused a death (albeit a temporary one) of the Internet on Monday.

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Pinterest Goes Down with Amazon Cloud Outage

Yesterday we told you how some of the sites that are hosted by Amazon’s cloud services went down due to “degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone”. At least that’s the reason Amazon is giving.

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Fast Company’s Website Traffic Hits Zero Due to Amazon Outage

It seems that a number of high-profile websites were affected by the most recent Amazon cloud server outage – one of five outages experienced by the company in the past year and a half.

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Another Amazon Outage Is Affecting Websites and Consumers

When the outage issue arose it wasn’t a widespread problem. It was a small problem that affected some of Amazon’s EC2 services in North Virginia. However, that small outage quickly turned into a full-blown problem.

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