AWS May Have Crashed, but These Memes Certainly Didn’t

AWS May Have Crashed, but These Memes Certainly Didn’t

Like with any serious issue, the internet did what it does best and turned the AWS outages into memes. These are the best so far.

The Amazon 'brain drain' finally sent AWS down the spout

When your best engineers log off for good, don't be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does. And so, a quiet suspi…

Hilarious memes explode as Amazon’s AWS outage hits meme-makers favourite Canva

The cloud-based design app went dark for a few hours on Oct 20 and 21. Read more at straitstimes.com.

AWS outage costed US companies roughly $75 million per hour

A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services brought parts of the internet to a standstill this week, costing major U.S. companies millions of dollars per hour and exposing just how vulnerable the digital economy has become to a single provider. From airlines and streaming giants to e-commerce platforms and banks, the disruption rippled through industries, underscoring the immense dependency businesses have placed on Amazon’s cloud backbone. While…