Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down, Causing Outages For Internet Services Across World

https://dailycaller.com ^ | AILAN EVANS TECH REPORTER | December 22, 2021 9:56 AM ET

[dfwgator]

Second time this month

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

[AppyPappy]

I got into Git without a problem

[C210N]

More and more web services are having outages these days.

For example, also today: poison-serving McDonalds

[ShadowAce]

Second time this month

From the article, it's the third time this month.

[dfwgator]

Isn’t Git Microsoft, so I would think it runs under Azure, not AWS.

[rktman]

Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down.... Is that a kamalism?

[Wuli]

And the stupid U.S. DOD and intel agencies are parking all kinds of security data in the Amazon cloud.

[Sirius Lee]

Perhaps Amazon is way behind in Christmas deliveries and this is an excuse. Has anybody looked into this possibility?

[BenLurkin]

Let it crash. Let it all crash.

[M Kehoe]

Is this twice now? In two months?

5.56mm

[Flick Lives]

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.

[mass55th]

That link for "poison-serving McDonalds" is down. Link takes you to a down detector site with the message "User reports indicate possible problems at McDonalds app".

Was it supposed to take you somewhere else?

[SuperLuminal]

These AWS outages never seem to affect my Amazon purchases or Prime video stuff...

[dayglored]

The posted article's scary headline and scary description are incredible hyperbole. The vast majority of AWS, and the vast majority of internet services, were unaffected.

Per https://status.aws.amazon.com/ it was a single datacenter ("Availability Zone") in a single region.

[TomGuy]

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.

[bigbob]

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.

[AppyPappy]

I thought Git was Open Source

[dfwgator]

I was thinking GitHub where Git-based projects are hosted.

[cymbeline]

“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.