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.
That explains it. Just tried to order Kindle books.
So IMHO, any business having issues due to the outage of a single AZ are not following AWS well documented practices.
I have numerous issues with the politics of AWS' leadership, but based on my experiences they are second to none in the cloud in terms of services and technology.
git - the SCM - is opensource.
I believe that M$ bought github.com. It uses git but git (the tool) is still opensource.
Per https://status.aws.amazon.com/ it was a single datacenter (”Availability Zone”) in a single region.
(* Unless there was some bang-on effects inside of AWS that meant that even multi-AZ applications were also affected)
“I believe that M$ bought github.com.”
Arg!!
I use MBED which in turn uses Github. I think the MBED projects are stored on Github but I’ve never directly used Github.
Perhaps, if you are going to hook everything up to the internet, you should have a back up plan.
AWS has quietly become Amazon’s big moneymaker. If this continues, and customers leave for Microsoft or Cisco, profits will suffer and their 3k stock price could drop big time.
Again? Well, I don’t want to hear about any power issues. Anyone familiar with data centers knows damn well that there’s redundant power and generator backups to make sure that there’s no downtime. In fact, my company measures downtime and as long as we don’t mess with our SLA of 99.999% uptime then everyone is happy.
I would have to think that Amazon has already shredded their service level agreements and probably owe customers refunds as a result. Something strange is going on with AWS and if I had to guess I would say that it is hackers targeting them which is the last thing they want to admit to.
Coincidentally, they are customer of mine and have quite a presence in my Colo space. It’s not uncommon for big companies to utilize other companies data centers where they can rent space and manage their equipment off site while not having to pay for infrastructure costs. In addition, the interconnection piece connecting them to a plethora of carriers is very convenient.
We’ve never had an issue with them and perhaps if they utilized other companies more then they wouldn’t have so many crashes.
Another reminder to people who don’t listen that ‘the cloud’ is just someone else’s data center.
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