Posted on 12/09/2021 5:29:19 AM PST by fruser1
Some Ring customers said that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out about the outage on social media.
Many rely on a phone app to enter their homes, rather than a code that can also be used, with those that had forgotten the latter stuck outside their own homes as Ring doorbells went down.
A source told DailyMail.com that the cause of the outbreak was a power failure in Virginia and not a malicious hacking.
The nearly eight-hour outage also disrupted the company's shipping operations on Tuesday, threatening to create lasting logjams during the Christmas season.
The outage shut down communications between Amazon and the fleet of thousands of drivers it relies on, preventing drivers from getting route assignments or packages.
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Most big data centers have at least two separate power sources.
I am not saying they are lying, but that seems very odd to me.
Great point. I manage several data centers and we have more double wide trailer sized generators than I can even count.
One day last week after picking my two granddaughters up from school,when we got home I realized Pop Pop forgot his house key! No worries. Just slid the kitchen window up,moved some dishes from the sink and fired the eight year old in there were she went around and unlocked the kitchen door. Who knew?
LOL!
Exactly. I thought that server farms usually had rather robust backup generators.
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One of the clients for AWS is Canvas which is a platform that a lot of universities use for their online courses. Canvas was down during this outage, and that meant a helluva lot of students across the country couldn’t take their online tests.
A “power outage” for 8 hours will somehow delay all shipments for 3 days.
I have no sympathy for those who have become too technologically dependent.
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