Comments on: Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:10:50 +0000

Affected revmob iOS ad service as well

By: mickrussom

mickrussom — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:47:47 +0000

Netflix is a had been company, a dried up stinky relic whose CEO is viciously anti USA and anti middle class who sees us a customers to milked and bilked.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:11:08 +0000

Yes, shawn, sounds like Roku was having issues of its own — thanks for your note — and staytuned.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:03:10 +0000

Roku was also affected by the outage, separate from Netflix. For me this meant that anything I do on my Roku was affected, including Amazon Prime, Pandora and Vudu. It’s not clear how Roku depends on AWS, but clearly there’s a dependency.

By: crnkyadmin

crnkyadmin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:20:56 +0000

Re: The AWS spokeswoman Dec. 26th at 6:49 PST.
Funny, my company’s ELBs were down and we don’t use ELB scaling… We only run a single instance on some of the ELBs (easier to manage SSL certs that way), and even they were down.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:48:40 +0000

Netflix was wonky again last night (Tuesday) in the East. Had trouble connecting and then streaming stopped on Apple TV. Was able to recover on Roku. Had some stutters on the Roku, but it managed to plod its way through the programming.

By: max

max — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:31:20 +0000

yep, Gopro pointing to this artice as the excuse and in answer to the vitriol they are getting on Facebook! Anyone opening a Gopro3 (hmm, xmas day? cant be many people doing that ! lol)finds a warning advising them to upgrade their firmware online BEFORE using their camera. when they try and do this, 502 bad gateway (Nginx) being the only response. The Nginx bad gateway error seems to be a common and well known error and according to google easy to fix / prevent. Gopro taking some serious heat about it and consumers have long memories.

By: Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:39:27 +0000

Amazon Streaming Video and Pandora (music) going to Roku were down in Daytona Beach FL. They were up for viewing on a PC. Amazon took my $2 to rent a movie, then was unable to deliver it. Would it be asking too much that Amazon check AWS status before charging for a service that’s down?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:42:26 +0000

Maybe it wasn’t widespread and localized to just Roku or a few other devices? It wasn’t that big a deal to me so I didn’t jump online to complain about it and I saw that Netflix was having problems due to Amazon so I figured it was related.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:33:12 +0000

as far as i can tell from this and other sites, there was no widespread Amazon Prime Instant Video outage…. but i’ll keeplooking

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3