Apple cloud services outage • Hacker News Board

akulbe wrote: post #22

Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems too coincidental that multiple services (Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far) have been affected, on the same day .

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

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Post by carthief » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:07 PM UTC

thank god game center is still up!

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Post by api » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:08 PM UTC

einarvollset wrote: post #20

ITunes Connect and TestFlight in particular has been an absolute shambles for at least the last 3 months. Nobody there seems to give a shit or take responsibility (ranging from support up thru to the highest levels).

Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store.

If iOS is their vision of the future of personal computing, then the future of personal computing is a walled garden presided over by a bureaucracy about as functional as a badly run DMV office.

There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of terrible customer support from a company with this kind of money. Their good UX near-monopoly and success seems to be making them lax toward their developer community... much like Microsoft became.

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Post by luhn » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

api wrote: post #24

akulbe wrote: post #22

Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems too coincidental that multiple services (Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far) have been affected, on the same day .

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers.

Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.

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Post by brazzledazzle » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

tehwebguy wrote: post #21

So this is why my AppleTV won't connect to Netflix / Hulu right now? I want a refund.

You need a connection to Apple to use third party apps you already have installed? If true that's ridiculous.

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Post by api » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

luhn wrote: post #27

api wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.

BGP? Tier-1 issues?

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Post by evanriley » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

api wrote: post #24

akulbe wrote: post #22

Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems too coincidental that multiple services (Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far) have been affected, on the same day .

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

The only Apple thing that I know was on AWS was the beats1 radio thing when it launched, not sure if it still is.