Submission + - Stephen Colbert to be Letterman's successor (newsweek.com) 3
ralphart writes: CBS has announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman on The Late Show, after Letterman retires in 2015.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 4 declined, 3 accepted (7 total, 42.86% accepted)
Submission + - Major outage at the Amazon Web Services (amazon.com)
ralphart writes: The Northern Virginia datacenter for Amazon Web Services appears to be having a major outage that affects EC2 services. The Amazon Forums are full of reports of problems.
Latest update from the status page:
2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
Latest update from the status page:
2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
Submission + - Amazon pulls out of Texas (dallasnews.com)
ralphart writes: Texas demands $269 million from Amazon in back sales tax. Amazon says "Uh...no thanks."
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