Dropbox, the hugely popular file-sync-store-and-share service, went down Thursday afternoon and remains down more than three hours later. Data synchronization from the website and dekstop application are affected, according to the @Dropbox Twitter feed which also assured customers that their data, while not accessible, remained safe.
So DropBox is down. This can't be good. #DropBox—
Benjamin Jarvis (@BenJarvi) January 10, 2013
Creating/joining shared folders, and creating shareable links to files, also affected. We appreciate you patience as we resolve this issue.—
Dropbox (@DropboxOps) January 11, 2013
Glad my #DropBox problems aren't exclusive. Thought I had some serious issues with the 4 files I've been working on the last 4 hours. Whew!—
Steven Zaychuk (@szaychuk) January 11, 2013
Since Dropbox runs on Amazon Web Services, the snafu sparked concerns about Amazon as well, although AWS status page reports no problems.
It’s been a tough week for free cloud services. Microsoft Hotmail and Outlook.com email was down for many customers starting Monday.
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