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BREAKING: AWS disputes the outage
AWS has just reached out to us with a statement: “AWS is operating normally and this reporting is incorrect. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”
True enough, according to the AWS Health Dashboard there are currently no problems at AWS. Which makes this huge spike on DownDetector even more unusual. Rest assured, we’re looking into what’s going on right now.”
or something to that effect
This one’s a big problem
Remember when I said AWS carries a lot of the world’s vital infrastructure? This is a big example of that. Capital One’s online banking has gone down. People are saying they can’t access or transfer funds right now.
Microsoft services are down too
You may have noticed on Down detector that it’s a lot more than just AWS services, Microsoft systems seem to be down too. For something like Outlook, I get it — some companies run their email servers through AWS, but to see Minecraft, Halo Reach and Copilot go down too? This is an Azure problem.
LastPass goes down, but only the marketing website
Luckily, the actual secure database part of LastPass is operational, looking at the company’s status page. But if you were keen to sign up for an account, you’ll have to wait for this AWS outage to finish.
The U.K government may need to speed up that plan
As reported by The Register, the U.K. government is going to publish a plan for handling future cloud outages. The minister for digital government and data, Ian Murray, said “it will take some time.”
Well, given it’s happened again, they may need to speed up the process a bit!
How many more times must this happen?!
How many more AWS outages until the internet builds a real backup plan? It’s a simple question I asked a bunch of experts.
You see, chances are with this being a US-EAST-1 situation again, that it comes down to some DNS issues — the digital phonebook of the internet — which is currently all stored in this one location in North Virginia.
That makes AWS’ infrastructure particularly fragile, and we’re seeing another example of it here.
U.K. Check
Just like last time, a lot of the UK infrastructure is impacted too, including banks and even the government.
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