Posted on 12/22/2021 10:29:11 AM PST by Red Badger
Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced issues Wednesday, taking multiple internet services offline.
AWS posted a notice on its service health dashboard early Wednesday saying it was “investigating increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region,” The Verge reported. The incident reportedly affected “a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region.”
The incident resulted in widespread outages for various online services and applications across the world.
Internet services outages are currently impacting the Epic Games Store, affecting logins, library, purchases, etc.
We are monitoring the situation and we will update you when the issue is resolved.
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) December 22, 2021
Slack, a workplace team coordination and messaging application, posted an incident update informing users many of its services were down.
“We are experiencing issues with file uploads, message editing, and other services,” the Slack notice read. “We’re currently investigating the issue and will provide a status update once we have more information.”
Other sites and services downed by Amazon’s issues included Flipboard, Udemy, Grindr, Hulu, certain Honeywell services, Life360 and Samsung’s SmartThings, The Verge reported.
The incident is the third major service issue this month for AWS, with the two earlier incidents resulting in even more severe and widespread outages.
Roughly one-third of cloud-based web services run on AWS.
Second time this month
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
I got into Git without a problem
From the article, it's the third time this month.
Isn’t Git Microsoft, so I would think it runs under Azure, not AWS.
Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down.... Is that a kamalism?
And the stupid U.S. DOD and intel agencies are parking all kinds of security data in the Amazon cloud.
Perhaps Amazon is way behind in Christmas deliveries and this is an excuse. Has anybody looked into this possibility?
Let it crash. Let it all crash.
Is this twice now? In two months?
5.56mm
The incident is the third major service issue this month for AWS, with the two earlier incidents resulting in even more severe and widespread outages.
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All the eggs in one basket with many companies relying on AWS as their underlying framework.
Was it supposed to take you somewhere else?
These AWS outages never seem to affect my Amazon purchases or Prime video stuff...
Per https://status.aws.amazon.com/ it was a single datacenter ("Availability Zone") in a single region.
My cable internet connection has been glitchy for a couple of weeks. Sometimes it is offline for a few moments and other times for several minutes.
Usually, when this happens, the cable co is messing with it, but the glitches have been interfering with random webpages/sites.
These outages are useful in that like a stress test, they identify weaknesses that will be addressed. People can bitch and moan all they want, but AWS ain’t going away, businesses and government aren’t going to stop using it, and like the power grid, highways, or any other form of infrastructure, the only way to get high reliability is by identifying bottlenecks and failure points and making them stronger.
I thought Git was Open Source
I was thinking GitHub where Git-based projects are hosted.
“Isn’t Git Microsoft?”
I thought it was github, which maybe has an affiliation with Microsoft, but it’s certainly not a repository centered around microsoft stuff.
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