Two days ago Instagramhelp tweeted they are having problems.

We're currently experiencing technical difficulties and we're working to correct the issues. Thanks for your patience

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One simple problem is DNS is not working. instagram.com shows

www.instagram.com does not resolve.

This may seem like a minor issue, but if this isn't fixed I wonder how many other things Instagram is busy fixing.

It appears instagram ran into the same problem Loggly had with AWS service.

Loggly suffers extended outage after AWS reboot shuts down their service

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 AT 9:29PM

Loggly a cloud service that provides as one of its services System Monitoring and Alerting.

Systems Monitoring & Alerting

Alerting on log events has never been so easy. Alert Birds will help you eliminate problems before they start by allowing you to monitor for specific events and errors. Create a better user experience and improve customer satisfaction through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting. Alert Birds are available to squawk & chirp when things go awry.

But, Loggly has suffered an extended outage that was caused by AWS rebooting 100% of their servers, but that was only half the time down. The other half was due to not knowing the service was down.