Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Netflix outage mars Christmas Eve

Big problems with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancing service in its US-East data center nailed Netflix and Heroku on Christmas Eve and carried over into Christmas. Netflix competitor Amazon Prime Instant VideoNetflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.But one Wii U video feature was ready for the console's launch: Netflix. On one level, that wasn't surprising. You can stream Netflix to more than 800 different devices; it's pretty much a baseline capability for an Internet-connected entertainmentNetflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.Did this Christmas' Netflix outage have you and yours \
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