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Netflix streaming is back up

Last night, some Netflix fans were met with bad news; their streaming service was not available to them on Christmas Eve.

The issue was thanks to Amazon Web Services, which is the massive cloud hosting service owned and operated by, you guessed it, Amazon.



Issues were stemming from the AWS center in Virginia, the same center that went down earlier this year causing downtime for thousands of small businesses.

As of this morning, however, streaming is back to normal, with Amazon having fixed whatever bugs were plaguing them.

Special thanks to our awesome members for being patient. We're back to normal streaming levels. We hope everyone has a great holiday.

-- Netflix US (@netflix) December 25, 2012

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 25 Dec 2012 15:52

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• 4 comments

• hikaricor

  Amazon Prime was also affected intermittently last night... just couldn't win.

  25.12.2012 18:57 #1

• hearme0

  Didn't know Amazon's cloud service hosted the Netflix content........fascinating.

  26.12.2012 14:15 #2

• blueboy09

  Originally posted by hearme0: Didn't know Amazon's cloud service hosted the Netflix content........fascinating.
  Yeah it's kind of ironic that Amazon's servers actually are the drive force behind Netflix, and btw, if Prime's services was down, it was only a very small amount that did, not enough to report about it by the looks of it...
  

  Chance prepares the favored mind. Look up once in a while and you might learn something. - BLUEBOY

  26.12.2012 16:32 #3

• bratcher

  Great to know that Netflix is back up!!

  4.1.2013 11:55 #4