Xero among cloud companies hit by Amazon outageMIKE SEGAR/REUTERS Slack, Trello, Splitwise and Medium were among the foreign services affected by an AWS outage. Amazon is recovering from a crippling outage that knocked out cloud computing services around the world, including Xero's accounting service. The outage was a wake-up call for people around the world about their reliance on cloud technology, with online software, smart home devices and educational services all rendered useless. Amazon Web Services goes down & takes out my course site & recorded lectures. Amazon says it has a simple web services interface that is designed to help businesses "store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web".

Source: Stuff February 28, 2017 19:45 UTC