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Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on USA Today: Portions of Amazon Web Services, the nation's largest cloud computing company, went offline Tuesday afternoon, affected multiple companies across the United States but especially on the east coast. The outage appeared to have begun around 12:45 pm ET. It was centered in AWS' S3 storage system on the east coast. Many of the services that firms use AWS are for back-end processes, and therefore not immediately visible to consumers, though the outage could disrupt customer-facing activities like logins and payments. At least some websites that appear to be affected are: Airbnb, Down Detector, Freshdesk, Pinterest, SendGrid, Snapchat's Bitmoji, Time, Buffer, Business Insider, Chef, Citrix, CNBC, Codecademy, Coursera, Cracked, Docker, Expedia, Expensify, Giphy, Heroku, Home Chef, iFixit, IFTTT, isitdownrightnow.com, Lonely Planet, Mailchimp, Medium, Microsoft's HockeyApp, News Corp, Quora, Razer, Slack, Sprout Social, Travis CI, Trello, Twilio, Unbounce, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Zendesk.
The dashboard of Amazon Web Services, which tracks the status of the service, is unable to change color, Amazon said. It is because the status dashboard also runs on the service that is down.
The dashboard of Amazon Web Services, which tracks the status of the service, is unable to change color, Amazon said. It is because the status dashboard also runs on the service that is down.
irony
This wouldn't happen if we put the cloud in the cloud.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
AKA "just someone's else computer".
This outage is being going for over an hour now but, according to Amazon, their services are green all across the board with "increased error rates". Almost feels like they're trying to cheat out their own SLAs.
Seriously...I would suspect this is due to an attack of some sort. Just a hunch.
The last time Microsoft's Azure platform had a huge, sustained failure, it was just an internal screw-up, not an attack. I've got no reason to think Amazon's east coast problems are any different. Not to say it couldn't be an attack, but no reason to think one way or the other, and lots of reasons to think "screwed up" - because that has happened at Amazon and elsewhere in Big Cloud many times.
And if so, isn't it the case that the larger the company, the bigger the target?
Yeah, but they've also got the enormous resources to help fend off problems that would crush a smaller provider. Works both ways.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Meh. Finally gave in and installed Ad Blocker. Slashdot easily has the most invasive ad structure of any web site I go to.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
My website is on my own server network and is working fine.
Because I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control, have no ability to see to the physical and network security of, where I don't have any control of reliability, redundancy, backup, availability of resources, longevity, OS level, OS and other software updates...
Oh yeah, and my costs are far less than the monthly dollop of blood extracted by cloud services.
"Live by the cloud... die by the cloud."
Carry on, suckers.
If it rains, you're in trouble.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
CMB messaging has silently stopped.
The Cosmic Microwave Background has stopped?
Jeez. I didn't realize that Amazon was that important.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
West coast best coast, east coast least coast.