Posted on 10/20/2025 3:48:11 AM PDT by deport
A major cloud computing service went offline early Monday, causing problems for thousands of websites and services including leading retailers, publishers and games.
Amazon Web Services first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an "operational issue" affecting 14 different services in its center in northern Virginia.
"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," the AWS health dashboard said.
At 5:27 a.m. ET the dashboard said there were "significant signs of recovery," despite a large backlog of requests and 30 minutes later it said engineers were observing "recovery across most of the affected AWS Services" in the U.S. and across the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Too many eggs in one basket.
Seems to have shutdown some, if not all, precious metals spot price reporting
“Amazon Web Services first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an “operational issue” affecting 14 different services in its center in northern Virginia.”
Intelligence Spook’s central surveillance center. “Northern Virginia”.
A significant portion of the world’s data traffic goes through Loudoun County. Northern Virginia.
Exactly right, Spook Central. Part of the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.
As someone who spent most of my working career in IT Support, specifically in Network Engineering, I would not want to be on the support team responsible for the system outage.
I’ve been around when the Customers I was working for had some pretty big outages, but nothing close to this type of outage, I can only imagine a bunch of people are missing rearends or have new A-holes after getting them chewed out.
I’m still here.
“...missing rearends or have new A-holes...”
Some business could be losing $millions per hour while offline, especially trading desk. So yes, getting a knew a-hole is justified unless it’s a hack from a foreign adversary (China).
Higher ups don’t want to hear excuses, regardless of the reason for the outage, even if it’s a hack from a foreign adversary no executive wants to hear that, all they want to know is when the issue is going to be resolved and what are you going to do to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Reboot your mouse, keyboard and computer just to be sure you are connected.
This is what happens when you funnel everything through a single gateway source of data collection.
https://www.kitco.com/charts/gold was static yesterday due to the AWS outage
LOL - manager to techy “Are you logged on? “ (pause)
“I saw that advice on my news forum. “
Yup—NSA is the monkey in the middle.
Interesting. there was another outage in the UK a few days ago.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/11/amazon-prime-video-thousands-viewers-unable-watch-tv-24399233/
It happened to me, when I tried to go from checkout to buy
I kept getting pictures of dogs.
I found “contact us” and that failed, and suggested a “call me” button.
That failed and it gave me a 1-800 number to call.
I called that and it
a) disconnected after several rings
b) was busy
c) never picked up
Bezos sucks.
Tech guy is named “Huge”
This explains a problem that just popped up with items stored in Amazon Cloud Services, I couldn’t figure out why my Amazon Fire Tablet wouldn’t respond to my directions.
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