Instagram, down by Amazon

Amazon glitch hits Instagram and AirBnB | Technology | theguardian.com: "Several popular websites suffered outages or slowdowns on Sunday when Amazon's unit that runs web servers for other companies experienced problems.

Picture site Instagram and Twitter's Vine video-sharing application were among the sites slow or unavailable along with holidays site AirBnB.

Instagram sent a tweet saying it was aware some users were having trouble loading Instagram and that it was working to resolve the problem. Vine later sent a similar tweet.

AirBnB tweeted that it was one of several websites and apps that were temporarily down because of Amazon server problems.

Amazon Web Services provides companies with online storage and computing power. Its website reported several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with only minor issues remaining.

By late on Sunday, videos posted to Vine appeared to be working again while Instagram and AirBnB were functioning but slow."

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