Amazon Web outage meant free parking at metered spots in Boston today; 38 zoning hearings also postponed

BTD waited until 5 p.m. to announce you could person parked for escaped successful metered spots contiguous due to the fact that the work it uses for the ParkBoston app (which lets you wage via your phone, alternatively than via a recognition paper oregon quarters) relies connected Amazon Web Services, which went down this morning.

And with nary mode to accommodate e-payers, the metropolis stopped parking summons enforcement arsenic well.

But don't number connected escaped parking connected Wednesday:

Note: Ticketing is lone suspended for unpaid metre violations this evening. All different violations volition beryllium enforced. Please program to wage astatine the metre with a paper oregon coin time arsenic we resume mean ticketing operations.

The Amazon Web Services outage besides crashed the WebEx work the Zoning Board of Appeals uses to behaviour hearings. A mates of hours aft they were scheduled to begin, the committee changed the teaser connected the metropolis YouTube transmission that had been urging viewers to delight basal by to work the hearings had been called disconnected and would beryllium rescheduled.

The hearings ranged from insignificant - a nonmigratory of Hancock Street wanted to physique a one-car driveway - each the mode up to a connection for a 22-story residential building connected the tract of a erstwhile nightclub astatine 150 Kneeland St. successful Chinatown.