Transcript by www.newsy.com You're watching multisource tech video news analysis from Newsy. The Amazon cloud went down early Wednesday morning when an unspecified problem temporarily knocking out power to the company's Elastic Cloud Computing or, EC2, servers. And big social network names like FourSquare, Hootsuite and Reddit along with other Internet start-ups who use the cloud were struck down along with it. E-Week explains... "Amazon began reporting trouble on its Service Health Dashboard about 5 am Eastern today. At 5 am, the site reported connectivity issues that were affecting its Relational Database Service, which is used to manage a relational database in the cloud, across multiple zones in the eastern US" The crash had users and site operators alike upset... Popular Twitter management site, Hootsuite, was one of the companies brought down. As of Thursday afternoon the company still had a error message on their homepage... "The Internet is struggling today...Thank you for your patience." Another social networking site, Reddit, sent users a message via their website. "reddit is in 'emergency read-only mode' right now because Amazon is experiencing a degradation. they are working on it but we are still waiting for them to get to our volumes. you won't be able to log in. we're sorry and will fix the site as soon as we can." Then there's Amazon's constantly updated Health Dashboard, whose latest update said... "We are continuing to see delays...We are working towards...
