When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...
Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the ‘concentration of power’ in the cloud infrastructure industry. Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an ...
The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s ...
A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...
It’s no exaggeration to say Amazon.com Inc. invented the cloud business. Amazon Web Services took the corporate data center apart and split it into pieces, building pay-as-you go services delivered ...
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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 ...
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep. By Sopan Deb Some users ...
A detailed explanation of this week’s Amazon Web Services outage, released Thursday morning, confirms that it wasn’t a hardware glitch or an outside attack but a complex, cascading failure triggered ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services has explained what went wrong to cause the major ...
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 ...
This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that ...