US EditionMassive Amazon cloud outage has been resolved after disrupting internet use worldwide
- On Monday, Amazon Web Services reported an outage originating in its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia that disrupted Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video, with Downdetector logging 11.3 million reports.
- Engineers traced the failure to load balancer health problems and DNS-resolution issues affecting DynamoDB API endpoints, which AWS said were fully mitigated by 2:24 AM PDT.
- Ookla reported over four million users faced issues and at least 1,000 companies, including Coinbase and Perplexity AI, experienced disruptions on Tuesday.
- By 3 p.m. Monday, AWS reported all services had returned to pre-event levels and expected two hours to process the backlog.
- The incident highlights cloud computing experts' concerns about dependency on concentrated providers as Amazon controls over 41% of market share and US-EAST-1 handles vast AI workloads in well over 100 warehouses.
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What We Know About the Massive Amazon Web Services Outage and How It Brought the Internet to Its Knees
A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday caused widespread disruptions to numerous popular websites, apps, and online services used by millions of people around the world. Although service was fully restored by the end of the day, details about exactly why AWS failed, knocking everything from school service provider Canvas to popular video game Fortnite offline, remain sparse.
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Amazon Web Services says its massive outage has been resolved, but the ripple effects are still raising alarms across the digital economy. The failure in the cloud-computing system disrupted internet access worldwide on Monday, briefly taking down social media, gaming, streaming, payment and government platforms.For about 15 hours, more than 11 million user reports flooded outage trackers, according to outage tracker site DownDetector. Over 2,50…
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