Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Amazon apologises for massive AWS outage and reveals cause

Amazon has revealed the cause of Monday's massive outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites. It says the problems that led to the outage stemmed from a "latent defect". Amazon has ...
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 ...
BBC

Amazon apologises to customers impacted by huge AWS outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has apologised to customers impacted by Monday's massive outage, after it knocked some of the world's largest platforms offline. Snapchat, Reddit and Lloyds Bank were among ...
The Verge

Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen

Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon’s servers were down. Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed ...
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 ...
The Indian Express

An AWS outage took down nearly the entire Internet. What caused it?

Amazon web services down: An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services provider that underpins much of online platforms, took nearly the entire Internet down for several hours on Monday, ...
The Washington Post

Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners

Banks failed to transfer their clients’ money. Gamers lost their streaks. Peloton riders struggled to log into classes. For a few hours early Monday, a service ...
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 ...
Engadget

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...
Hindustan Times

AWS outage: Full list of sites and apps affected by Amazon cloud service issue

A global outage hit Amazon web services (AWS) on Monday, disrupting many websites and services including Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Perplexity, Fortnite, Canva and ...
aboutamazon

Update - AWS services operating normally

This article was updated at 6:15 p.m. PDT on October 20. Between 11:49 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:24 AM PDT on October 20, AWS experienced increased error rates for ...