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Throughout the course of Dr. Lovejoy’s career, much of it based in the Washington area for organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, the World Wildlife Fund and George Mason University, he became increasingly alarmed about climate change and the global extinction crisis. In spreading this message, he allied with lawmakers and Hollywood celebrities, often leading them on tours of his research station north of Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, known as Camp 41.

A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.

For many purposes they are functionally equivalent to a dedicated physical server, and being software-defined, are able to be much more easily created and configured. They are priced much lower than an equivalent physical server. However, as they share the underlying physical hardware with other VPSes, performance may be lower, depending on the workload of any other executing virtual machines.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Market research is an intelligence report with meticulous efforts…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday morning, which took down several popular websites including Netflix, Doordash and Hulu, marking the second time in a week the cloud hosting service has failed. 

The Amazon-owned platform began experiencing problems around 10:24am ET, with users citing the website, hosting and server connection as all having issues. It returned to full service shortly after 12:20pm ET. 

Only a few countries, including the US, China the UK and India, reported problems, which were less widespread than the prior outage.

On December 9, Amazon Web Services went down for seven hours and took several other websites with it that use the company’s cloud servers.

However, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows…

This article was update to clarify that Amazon is ending the original Alexa service, known as Alexa Internet.

Alexa.com doesn’t land you on Amazon’s infamous Alexa voice recognition ecosystem. Instead, it goes to a little-known service (albeit one still owned by Amazon) that, for a long time, was the go-to resource for everyone involved with search engine optimization (SEO), the art of trying to get your site to rank on search engines, first the likes of Yahoo!, then Altavista/Hotbot/Lycos/AskJeeves, then ultimately on Google.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Amazon Web Services went down Tuesday morning impacting users around the world who couldn’t access certain services and websites.

According to a posted message from AWS at 8:22 a.m. (PT) the company was “investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.”

Down Detector, a website that tracks online issues shows the problem peaked around 9 a.m.

The outage impacted Amazon’s web-hosting platform taking down Netflix, Disney+, and Venmo.

McDonald’s, Tinder and even Associated Press went dark.