Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet, recovery may take ‘a few hours’

[erek]

"Many apps, services, and websites have posted on Twitter about how the AWS outage is affecting them, including 1Password, Acorns, Adobe Spark, Anchor, Autodesk, Capital Gazette, Coinbase, DataCamp, Getaround, Glassdoor, Flickr, iRobot, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pocket, RadioLab, Roku, RSS Podcasting, Tampa Bay Times, Vonage, The Washington Post, and WNYC. Downdetector.com has also shown spikes in user reports of problems with many Amazon services throughout the day.

AWS is one of the most widely-used cloud computing services in the world, so any issues can have major ripple effects for other web services and apps, as evidenced by the number of companies affected by today’s outage. My colleague Russell Brandom has a helpful video explaining how AWS works:"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet

 

[Deleted member 89018]

At work we regularly joke about business continuity. Using office 365 means a business doesn’t have to deal with downtime, right? People like to say “well if Microsoft goes down there are bigger problems.”

and it’s funny, yeah, and you can kind of hand-wave away the whole thing, but if you stop to think about it for a minute, a huge chunk of the internet and business runs on one of (or a combination of) Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

So if one of them goes down, say Amazon actually goes down for a few hours, or even longer, well... what IS your backup plan?

 

[chameleoneel]

At work we regularly joke about business continuity. Using office 365 means a business doesn’t have to deal with downtime, right? People like to say “well if Microsoft goes down there are bigger problems.”

and it’s funny, yeah, and you can kind of hand-wave away the whole thing, but if you stop to think about it for a minute, a huge chunk of the internet and business runs on one of (or a combination of) Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

So if one of them goes down, say Amazon actually goes down for a few hours, or even longer, well... what IS your backup plan?

2 months ago, any MFA hosted by MS Azure went down for almost 2 hours. And it was BONKERS.

 

[Insomniator]

We've been migrating to a hybrid cloud setup with AzureO365 and some AWS -- with the vendors talking our ears off about how bulletproof and redundant their solutions are.

Well, we've had more 'surprise' downtime's in the last few years than we ever had with our private cloud, which has remained the most stable by far albeit with less and less responsibility.

 

[CVNet1]

Guess management will finally understand that the cloud is just another way of saying that other guy over there is running your servers and handling your precious data.

Maybe you save money by not hosting on-prem somewhere and maybe you don't, but unplanned outages do happen for both solutions. Also, both solutions can be vulnerable to data loss during certain types of failure events.

I do wonder if more businesses that went to the cloud will migrate back to on-prem (either fully or as a failover standby) as the potential failure events typical to cloud become better understood by management teams.

 

[Lakados]

This explains much of the complaints that have been coming across my desk about websites being blocked, while I can find no records of the firewall blocking the sites.