Hopefully can be resolved to get back to normal.

Busy.org seemed to be down at that point as well.  Which surprised me.  I don't know what it would have had issues at the same time.

@cryptodelos - Thanks for putting out this memo about the outage!  I was wondering what happened when I wasn't able to bring up or login to the steemit website.  Cheers! @steemitblog

Great! thanks for keeping us updated...
D.

Yeah I couldn’t access steemit for a few hours. 

Thanks for letting us know about the issue.

that's probably why.. good to know everything is normal.

Using Amazon Web Services is already a mistake on its own.

what does steemit.com use AWS for?

Any possibility that Steemit could move away from AWS? It would be nice to be free of any third party systems, wouldn't it? Even something as large and you would think as reliable as AWS.

We are waiting for the issues that happened there, thank you for telling the whole community steemit. In addition, I await the discussion @steemitblog related to the number of irresponsible fishing accounts in steemit that is currently often a lot of happening and also very many victims are hooked.

1 incident reported, 5 or 6 more to explain from the last weeks.
Who is your incident manager?
Who is problem manager?
Would be nice to know, if you even are aware of such roles...

Just what I was thinking storj are attempting to go head to head with AWS. Did you manage to get involved with the equity offering recently??

Glad to know that all services are fully operational. Hopefully Team steemit will address the issue to avoid such incident next time. All the best

Thank you for keeping us updated on happenings on the steem blockchain @steemitblog

I'm glad it is back online now, was bit of a challenge some two hours ago. Good one Team Steemit.

Polish version: [Przerwa na Steemit.com z powodu AWS](https://steemit.com/polish/@steemit-polska/przerwa-na-steemit-com-z-powodu-aws).

How come? I didn't even noticed it, and I was pretty active this afternoon. Great to hear that it is okay now!

Great to know that it is back to normal. I had a thousand dollar post that I wanted to publish when this happened :P

Thank you for the info!
You should write the time in UTC so everyone could to the math much easier than from Pacific Time! Not everyone is American! ;)

Here's a thought:
When there is an outage and no one can see your posts, maybe say what's going on someplace we can see it, like, your Twitter.

Great to read that all is back to normal!
On another note, I noticed something quite strange since some days while redeeming my rewards and [I just wrote a post on same asking for help!](https://steemit.com/steemit/@progressivechef/are-we-rewarded-with-steem-on-top-of-steem-power-and-sbd-now-did-i-miss-something) 
I am getting rewards consisting of STEEM on top of the usual SBD and SP!
Has there been any changes on the rewards system?

![2018-04-01 01_49_23-Progressivechef (@progressivechef) — Steemit.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRdGNqDrXauUzFqRQTuyai4LAgJmFSPShs1USEDENNQ16/2018-04-01%2001_49_23-Progressivechef%20(%40progressivechef)%20%E2%80%94%20Steemit.png)

Would be great to know more on this change!
Thank you!
@progressivechef

thank you for the update.
Great communication!

Was there also a period of slowdown prior to the outage? Seemed to be incredibly slow around 3 pm EST Sunday.

Business as usual.
Connections to Amazon, Facebook and Google.
And this: https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/just-so-we-re-clear-the-tech-manager-of-steemit-is-anti-democracy-and-pro-oligarchy-in-his-own-words

Whomever wants to do or know anything about his account needs to pay for it by surrendering a part of his own author rewards to unofficial services like busy.org, or let services like steembottracker.com and steemdb.com and steemnow.com and others mine with his computer, or both, like the case of dmania.lol was, or not do what he wanted to do.

Thank you for the update.

Wish all the not third-party at fault outages and incidents got reported about so diligently.

I noticed the outage and I switched to busy.org because I can't afford spending even a split second without this amazing blockchain. I am very glad that Steemit.com Is back now. #blessings