This quote from a recent tweet is a massive exaggeration, but if you’ve noticed problems with LibraryH3lp, or LibGuides, or other external websites, it may be because of what’s being dubbed AWSpocalypse – issues with Amazon Web Services (official status page).

A lot of sites, especially smaller startup companies, use storage space on Amazon’s servers for images, stylesheets, and other small files on their webpages. This cuts down their costs and is generally more efficient and robust than the smaller companies could manage themselves – but when it does fall down it has effects on a large number of sites all at once.

Of course being a big service, they’ll have all the expensive employees working to fix it quickly, so hopefully everything will be back to normal pretty soon. 🙂

Deborah