UK Politicians to Draft Outage Blueprint After AWS Calamity

UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity

: 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds

Minister: ‘AWS outage affected suppliers and departments and it will take time to fully understand impact’

DSIT is heading up efforts to get to grips with the tech issues recently suffered by the vendor, which holds a large, but unspecified, share of the government cloud market The recent outage affecting Amazon Web Services affected a range of government departments and their commercial partners, and exploratory work led by Whitehall tech experts “will take some time to fully understand the scale of the impact”, a minister has said. On Monday of las…

Canvas outage sparks concerns

The Wayne State College Service Center Team sent out an email early in the morning on Monday, Oct. 20, regarding the Canvas app outagedue to the huge AWS outage that affected many apps and websites.   Some of the apps that went down included Snapchat, Amazon, McDonald’s app, and the big one that affected many students, Canvas.    Canvas was one of the apps that was most talked about when it shut down because many colleges use the app to submit a…