Cloud Computing: Google puts App Engine back online
October 28, 2012
Google says it resolved whatever ailed its platform as a service. It was Black Friday for the web with Tumblr, Dropbox and Google App Engine all going down. It was unclear if these issues were related and/or due to a broader systemic problem.
TGIF, they must be saying at Google, which just put Google App Engine back online after a rough day of outages. In a statement released at around 12:45 p.m. PDT, the company said the service had been restored and that it continued to look into the root cause…
According to Google, an event this morning caused its load balancing servers to fail. To restore service, Google shut down traffic and slowly brought the service back up. This was the “first major high replication datastore outage we’ve had since moving to database infrastructure“ almost two years ago.
Users of the GAE Platform as a Service can go to this site for updates, including an incident report…
Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/cloud/google-puts-app-engine-back-online/