Reddit went down for a period of six hours early Friday morning, making it look as bad as any service does when its millions of visitors suddenly can't get to their beloved community.
It's not a good thing. But according to one former Reddit employee, who left Reddit for Hipmunk last week, the problem has been going on for months with Amazon Web Services (AWS). "Keltralnis," writes that in the past year the issues have even escalated to the office of the CIO. Ketralnis is the user name for David King.
In the comments to the post, people question Amazon Web Services as the right provider for the service. And in hindsight, King says in a comment that Reddit should have moved off Amazon last Fall.
Worst of all, community members are worried about the service having continued outages. That's a bad place to be. No service wants to have this kind of problem.
The debate, much to King's lament, is now becoming a conversation about the cloud. Is that far fetched? It is a bit but it does surface some issues to consider about broad services such as AWS.
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