{"id":85181,"date":"2013-08-26T02:04:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T00:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=85181"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T08:41:54","slug":"amazon-server-problems-bring-down-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/85181-amazon-server-problems-bring-down-instagram.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon server problems bring down Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a>&#8216;s unit that runs Web servers for other companies had problems Sunday that coincided with outages or slowdowns on several popular websites.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AirBnB\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/513966-Airbnb\">AirBnB<\/a> says its site was one of those affected. Other services that were slow or unavailable included <a title=\"Instagram\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/412033-Instagram\">Instagram<\/a> and <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>&#8216;s Vine video-sharing application.<\/p>\n<p>Online home rental service AirBnB tweeted at 4:32 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) that it was one of several websites and apps that were temporarily down because Amazon server problems.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram sent a tweet saying it was aware some users were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on the problem. Vine later sent a similar tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services provides companies with online storage and computing power. Its website showed several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with a few remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/85025-yahoo-beats-google-in-web-traffic.html\">Yahoo beats Google in web traffic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/84917-ad-free-bing-search-for-classrooms.html\">Ad-free Bing search for classrooms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/84913-facebook-project-wants-internet-access-for-all.html\">Facebook project wants Internet access for all<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s unit that runs Web servers for other companies had problems that coincided with outages or slowdowns on several popular websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":76077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[723,7979],"class_list":["post-85181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-amazon","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85213,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85181\/revisions\/85213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}