"A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted a large portion of the internet, taking down apps, websites and online tools used by millions of people around the world, before services were eventually restored. From banking apps and airlines to smart home devices and gaming platforms, the hours-long breakdown revealed how much of modern life depends on cloud's infrastructure."
"The problem started in one of AWS's main data centres in Virginia, its oldest and biggest site, after a technical update to the API a connection between different computer programmes of DynamoDB, a key cloud database service that stores user information and other important data for many online platforms. The root cause appears to have been an error in the update that affected the Domain Name System (DNS), which helps apps find the correct server addresses."
At about 07:11 GMT a technical update to the DynamoDB API in an AWS Virginia data centre caused a DNS error that prevented apps from resolving the API's IP address. DynamoDB began failing and cascading outages affected 113 AWS services, disrupting banking apps, airlines, smart home devices, gaming platforms and other popular websites and online tools used by millions worldwide. The outage lasted several hours; by 10:11 GMT Amazon reported normal operations with a backlog of messages to process. Downdetector continued to show user reports for platforms like OpenAI, ESPN and Apple Music during recovery.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]