Mashable

AWS outage update: What happened and why?

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...
Mashable

AWS outage update: Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Reddit, more hit by massive outage

UPDATE Monday, 5:07 p.m. ET: Amazon indicated its AWS services were well on the way to fully recovering. "We continue to observe recovery across all AWS services," the company wrote in an update to ...
GeekWire

AWS outage affects Ticketmaster for pivotal Mariners vs. Blue Jays playoff game in Toronto

The effects of the massive AWS outage reached the sports world on Monday. Ticketmaster was dealing with ticket management issues as a result of the outage, according to messages shared by several ...
InfoWorld

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...
Wired

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...
Computer Weekly

AWS confirms it is working to 'fully restore' services after major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it is working to “fully restore” its customers’ cloud environments, after an “operational issue” within its North Virginia datacentre region knocked out multiple ...
Fast Company

The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem

While you were sleeping, large parts of the Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based internet went offline around the world. According to the AWS outage monitor, the problem stemmed from a misconfiguration of ...
Digital Trends

How Amazon’s AWS outage took down huge chunks of the web

If you had trouble accessing some of your favorite websites and services on October 20, you weren’t alone. A huge swath of the internet experienced hours of issues with outages reported across ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon: This week’s AWS outage caused by major DNS failure

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday. As BleepinComputer reported earlier this week, this ...
PC World

These smart beds began roasting their owners during AWS outage

Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds got anything but a good night’s sleep Monday, as the beds began heating up uncontrollably while also getting frozen in position due to Amazon’s worldwide server outage ...
Wired

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. Researchers reflecting ...