A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

The incident began at 11:48 PM PDT on October 19 (7.48 UTC on October 20), when customers reported increased DynamoDB API ...
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Amazon’s Outage Root Cause, $581M Loss Potential And ‘Apology:’ 5 AWS Outage Takeaways

AWS outage caused by a DNS automated systems error may result in a $581 million loss for Amazon as the cloud and AI company make changes to prevent similar failures.

Is Venmo still down? Live updates on widespread AWS outage

The popular peer-to-peer payment platform Venmo went down on Monday, October 20, one of several apps taken offline amid ...
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These are the reasons behind AWS failures this week, 100 billion lost

The AWS cloud failure, caused by DNS and a "haywire" EC2 monitoring system, paralyzed global apps/banks. Losses hit billions, ...
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That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

The massive Amazon Web Services outage that took down sites from Reddit to Ring to Roblox has been fixed, the company said.
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AWS outage affects everything from Signal to Snapchat

Issues affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused massive outages affecting a multitude of services including Signal, Snapchat, Amazon, Ring, and many others.