Outages at Halifax, Lloyds, Snapchat, Amazon and more after AWS disruption

MPs ask why key parts of UK IT infrastructure is hosted abroad after AWS outage

Major banks, HMRC, gaming platforms Roblox and Fortnite were among sites affected by Amazon Web Services’ fault. MPs have raised concerns that “key parts” of UK IT infrastructure are hosted abroad after disruption to Amazon Web Services led to outages across a wide range of internet services including HMRC, Halifax and Lloyds. Downdetector, a website which tracks complaints about online services, showed a spike in reports on Monday, with thousan…

Outages at Halifax, Lloyds, Snapchat, Amazon and more after AWS disruption

Disruption affecting Amazon Web Services led to a spike in reported outages across a range of internet services, including Halifax, Lloyds and…

AWS伺服器又又又故障　　嚴重影響英國及全球用戶 - winandmac.com 視麥媒體

亞馬遜雲端服務（AWS）於本周一凌晨發生重大故障，影響全球數百項應用程式及網站。故障在美國東岸時間凌晨3時左右開始發生，美國東岸地區一個區域網關出現問題。AWS隨後確認原因後進行修復，不過部分服務於期間反應仍然十分緩慢、並出現錯誤率上升的情況。故障不止影響亞馬遜自家服務，還包括Snapchat、Roblox、Fortnite、Duolingo、Ring、Coinbase及Canva等，亦波及銀行應用程式、加密貨幣平台、聯合航空和達美航空等航空公司，以及多個社交媒體平台。 今次問題來自DynamoDB和彈性運算雲端（EC2）等核心服務，主要原因是DNS轉換出現問題，影響身份及存取管理服務（IAM）等AWS認證服務，引發連鎖問題。很多網站在使用AWS認證服務時，只會使用預設的us-east-1美國東部地區，一旦出現問題，就算本身其他伺服器或儲存無事，多個網站都會受到影響。AWS宣稱大部分服務於三小時內已恢復，但提醒部分用戶可能仍會遇到一些問題。 英國受影響的程度遠較美國嚴重，尤其是對網上銀…