Amazon Web Services Outage Affects a Large Chunk of the Internet; Hours Away From Full Recovery
4 years, 1 month ago

Amazon Web Services Outage Affects a Large Chunk of the Internet; Hours Away From Full Recovery

News 18  

Amazon Web Services, the company’s internet infrastructure service has been experiencing a multi-hour outage that is affecting a large portion of the internet. Amazon Web Services is one of the most widely used cloud computing service and acts as the backbone of many websites and apps on the internet. In a statement on the AWS Service Health Dashboard, Amazon said that the issues are on its Kinesis Data Streams API in the US-EAST-1 region and that it is working towards a recovery. “We also continue to see an improvement in error rates for Kinesis and several affected services, but expect full recovery to still take up to a few hours,” Amazon said in the statement.

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Amazon Alexa, other services stop working due to AWS outage
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon Alexa, other services stop working due to AWS outage

Live Mint  

Several high-profile websites have experienced outages in a major disruption to Amazon Web Services. One unexpected casualty of the outage was Amazon's own voice assistant, Alexa, as well as Amazon Music. In December 2021, disruptions to its cloud services led to temporary outages for streaming giants Netflix and Disney, as well as Robinhood and Amazon's own e-commerce website, creating chaos …

Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline
2 years, 6 months ago

Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hundreds of websites were knocked offline after an outage at …

Cloudflare Faces Major Outage, Host Of Internet Services Go Down: All Details
2 years, 6 months ago

Cloudflare Faces Major Outage, Host Of Internet Services Go Down: All Details

News 18  

Cloudflare which powers a host of popular websites on the internet reported a massive outage on Tuesday, leaving millions without access to their digital services. https://t.co/22Yiyu3lKJ— Cloudflare June 21, 2022 Cloudflare is a content delivery network and server provider, so if any of its systems crash or have issues, the majority of the internet becomes unavailable to the end-user. Downdetector …

Amazon Web Services crashes AGAIN: Unit was down for nearly two hours in its third outage this month
3 years ago

Amazon Web Services crashes AGAIN: Unit was down for nearly two hours in its third outage this month

Daily Mail  

Amazon Web Services crashed on Wednesday morning for nearly two hours, marking the cloud-computing service's third outage this month. Amazon Web Services crashed on Wednesday morning for nearly two hours, marking the cloud-computing service's third outage this month Today's outage, although not long, highlights major issues in Amazon's cloud-computing unit The official AWS service health dashboard blamed the issues on …

Amazon restores cloud services after power outage hits data center
3 years ago

Amazon restores cloud services after power outage hits data center

Live Mint  

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YouTube says services fixed after disruption affects thousands
3 years ago

YouTube says services fixed after disruption affects thousands

The Hindu  

Alphabet Inc's YouTube said on Tuesday it has fixed an issue that caused thousands of users to lose access to its platform or face slow services. Downdetector, which showed there were more than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube, tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. A major …

YouTube says services fixed after disruption affects thousands
3 years ago

YouTube says services fixed after disruption affects thousands

Live Mint  

Alphabet Inc's YouTube said on Tuesday it has fixed an issue that caused thousands of users to lose access to its platform or face slow services. Downdetector, which showed there were more than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube, tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. A major …

The feudal cloud kingdom
3 years ago

The feudal cloud kingdom

The Hindu  

Amazon’s cloud service, Amazon Web Services, suffered a massive outage last week. THE GIST Amazon’s cloud service, Amazon Web Services, suffered a massive outage last week. To break the cloud monopoly, we must resort to time-tested decentralised peer-to-peer models that have proven successful at moving massive amounts of data quickly and efficiently while remaining largely tolerant to attacks and outages. …

Explained | What caused Amazon's outage? Will there be more?
3 years, 1 month ago

Explained | What caused Amazon's outage? Will there be more?

The Hindu  

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn't start. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the internet and its concentration in the hands of a few firms. The company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an Amazon Web Services dashboard …

Explainer: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?
3 years, 1 month ago

Explainer: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?

Associated Press  

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the internet and its concentration in the hands of a few firms. The company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an Amazon Web Services dashboard …

Experts warn huge Amazon crash 'could impact an already tight delivery model'
3 years, 1 month ago

Experts warn huge Amazon crash 'could impact an already tight delivery model'

Daily Mail  

Amazon has dismissed fears that its massive global outage could lead to Christmas chaos, despite experts warning that it may 'impact an already tight delivery model'. Amazon's outage reportedly meant delivery drivers were unable to do their job on Tuesday afternoon SITES IMPACTED BY AMAZON SHUTDOWN: Amazon Prime Video Amazon Music Ring Alexa iRobot Kindle InstaCart Venmo GoDaddy Associated Press …

Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; takes down Kindle, Netflix, Disney and more for hours
3 years, 1 month ago

Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; takes down Kindle, Netflix, Disney and more for hours

Firstpost  

In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Richard Rocha confirmed that Amazon’s warehouse and delivery operations had also experienced issues as a result of the AWS outage Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the company …

Amazon Server Outage: Shopping Site, Prime Video and Other Apps Crash
3 years, 1 month ago

Amazon Server Outage: Shopping Site, Prime Video and Other Apps Crash

News 18  

Several Amazon.com Inc services including Prime Video, its namesake e-commerce website and applications that use Amazon Web Services were down for thousands of users in the United States on Tuesday. Other services including Amazon’s Ring security cameras, mobile banking app Chime and robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot were also facing issues according to their social media pages. “A major Amazon …

Amazon's Online Store Down for Many Users Globally
3 years, 5 months ago

Amazon's Online Store Down for Many Users Globally

News 18  

E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc’s online store was grappling with widespread outages on Sunday night, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector, the second broad disruption to services since late June. Its online store showed error messages on several regional domains. More than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon’s online store site, while nearly 500 users reported problems with the Amazon …

Monday blues for Amazon as its shopping websites were down for hours, services now restored
3 years, 5 months ago

Monday blues for Amazon as its shopping websites were down for hours, services now restored

India Today  

Amazon’s online stores went down for several hours globally on Monday morning, leading to disruptions in online shopping in several countries. While Amazon’s online shopping services, however, were restored a few hours later, the impact was bad, so much so people took to Twitter to report they were not able to log in, search for products, add items to the …

Brief, global internet outages blamed on software bug
3 years, 6 months ago

Brief, global internet outages blamed on software bug

Associated Press  

BOSTON — A software bug at a major network provider briefly knocked dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe offline during peak business hours in Asia. Akamai, which runs one of the internet’s main content-delivery systems, said the outage Thursday was not caused by a cyberattack, but rather a software bug on a service that protects …

Internet outage hits websites, apps of many airlines, banks, other companies; services now restored
3 years, 6 months ago

Internet outage hits websites, apps of many airlines, banks, other companies; services now restored

Firstpost  

Many of the outages were reported by people in Australia trying to do banking, book flights and access postal services. A wave of brief internet outages hit the websites and apps of dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe Thursday. — HKEX 香港交易所 June 17, 2021 Internet monitoring websites including ThousandEyes, Downdetector.com and fing.com showed dozens …

Internet outage: Airlines and bank websites go down in another major failure
3 years, 6 months ago

Internet outage: Airlines and bank websites go down in another major failure

CNN  

London CNN Business — Airlines, banks, stock exchanges and trading platforms suffered brief website outages early Thursday after a key piece of internet infrastructure failed, sparking the second major interruption of the past 10 days. Virgin Australia said in a statement on Thursday that it had resolved an IT outage caused by a failure at Akamai Technologies, a global content …

Two obscure service providers briefly broke the internet. It could happen again
3 years, 7 months ago

Two obscure service providers briefly broke the internet. It could happen again

CNN  

New York CNN Business — For the second time in 10 days, a giant chunk of the internet briefly broke because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of. Nearly all websites rely on a service provider like Fastly or Akamai — which run what’s called a “content delivery network” or CDN — as a …

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