NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s unit that runs Web servers forother companies had problems Sunday
that coincided with outages orslowdowns on several popular websites.AirBnB says its site wasone of those
affected. Other services that were slow or unavailableincluded Instagram and Twitter’s Vine
video-sharing application.Onlinehome rental service AirBnB tweeted at 4:32 p.m. ET that it was one
ofseveral websites and apps that were temporarily down because Amazonserver problems.Instagram sent a
tweet saying it was aware someusers were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on
theproblem. Vine later sent a similar tweet.Amazon Web Servicesprovides companies with online storage
and computing power. Its websiteshowed several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with minor
issuesremaining.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.At 7 p.m. ET videos posted
to Vine appeared to be working. Instagram and AirBnB were functioning but slow.Copyright 2013 The
Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten
orredistributed.NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s unit that runs Web servers forother companies had problems
Sunday that coincided with outages orslowdowns on several popular websites.AirBnB says its site wasone
of those affected. Other services that were slow or unavailableincluded Instagram and Twitter’s Vine
video-sharing application.Onlinehome rental service AirBnB tweeted at 4:32 p.m. ET that it was one
ofseveral websites and apps that were temporarily down because Amazonserver problems.Instagram sent a
tweet saying it was aware someusers were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on
theproblem. Vine later sent a similar tweet.Amazon Web Servicesprovides companies with online storage
and computing power. Its websiteshowed several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with minor
issuesremaining.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.At 7 p.m. ET videos posted
to Vine appeared to be working. Instagram and AirBnB were functioning but slow.Copyright 2013 The
Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten
orredistributed.
