# Amazon Web Servers having problems

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\
**Created:** [August 31, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524 "2019-08-31T15:06:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gofourth777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@gofourth777](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/gofourth777)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524/1 "2019-08-31T15:06:09Z")

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It’s not GoW fault that you can’t load the game. Amazon Web Services is experiencing problems and it is affecting lots of internet addresses.

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**Author:** ![Mariana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mariana/32/63233_2.png) [@Mariana](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mariana)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524/2 "2019-08-31T15:11:05Z")

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[downdetector.com](http://downdetector.com)  
There is a long list

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**Author:** ![Sisyphus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Sisyphus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sisyphus)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524/3 "2019-08-31T15:38:09Z")

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Funny how using a distributed system becomes a single point of failure for your application.

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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524/4 "2019-08-31T15:49:37Z")

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> **[Northeast blackout of 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965)**
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> The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles (207,000 km2) were left without electricity for up to 13 hours.
> The cause of the failure was the setting of a protective relay on one of the trans...

It doesn’t matter how distributed your system is if failure at a single location can cause a cascade at others.

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**Author:** ![Sisyphus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Sisyphus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sisyphus)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/amazon-web-servers-having-problems/57524/5 "2019-08-31T16:01:20Z")

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It’s designing such that the “if” can become true that’s a problem. Sometimes physical reality requires it but, more often, it’s a lazy decision,