The incident is a classic "BGP hijack." BGP stands for the Border Gateway Protocol and is the de-facto system used to route internet traffic between internet networks across the globe. The entire ...

An unfathomable amount of that traffic is from AWS. Amazon doesn’t release exact numbers at to just how much of the global Internet currently sits atop its infrastructure. In 2012, a now-lost ...

Those servers supported other AWS products and services, and it caused a chain reaction, which meant that certain critical systems had to be rebooted — and while they were restarting ...

AWS’ CISO said his Seattle-based company ... That is our gateway to the internet or gateway to outside of our own environment. That’s why we made that investment years ago.

While this had limited impact for most customer workloads, it did cause some internal AWS services - including CloudWatch, ECS Fargate, and API Gateway ... outages on the internet, listed 348 ...

Users are reporting a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, bringing down websites and backend services for organizations including the Associated Press, Disney+ and Vice. Details about the ...