AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
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- Lots of websites and apps were down this morning because of problems with the Amazon cloud service (AWS) that carries everyone's data. It's responsible for 30% of the world's cloud market! — The secure text app Signal was down too, along with lots of other interesting and important services. … @AskPippa@c.im
- The list of impacted services at #AWS US EAST 1 keeps on growing. From 17 services to 37 as of posting this. Still waiting for #Signal to temporary switch away from there (which they supposedly can) and restore service for me and many others. — https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ... @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
- From the “Cloud is sooo awesome” department: — AWS US-EAST-1 Region Down. — Therefore eg. Signal is down. — https://www.theverge.com/... Cross-Region failover is apparently hard and/or expensive. @leyrer@23.social · Leyrer
- A lot of services that are supposedly running in EU are currently having significant issues due to AWS US-EAST-1 being impacted. But surely this is just some dependencies that are down and all our data is really stored in EU. Right? — https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ... [image] @harrysintonen@infosec.exchange · Harry Sintonen
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Roblox Status
Roblox Status
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Filter — Widespread outage due to AWS outage — Website, Mobile App, Xbox App, Games …
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@fortnitestatus
@fortnitestatus
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⚠️ An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting Fortnite log-ins. We're investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details.
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@coinbasesupport
@coinbasesupport
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We're aware many users are currently unable to access Coinbase due to an AWS outage. Our team is working on the issue and we'll provide updates here. All funds are safe.
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@aravsrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
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Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're working on resolving it.
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@mer__edith
Meredith Whittaker
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PSA: we are aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
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@fortnitestatus
@fortnitestatus
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✅ The service provider outage is resolved and Fortnite is back online! Players should again be able to log-in and matchmake without issue. We'll continue to monitor this to ensure service remains stable. 🫡
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@askrobinhood
@askrobinhood
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AWS (one of our third-party vendors) is experiencing an outage, which is affecting Robinhood services. We're aware of the issue and will share an update once resolved.
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@eosstatus
@eosstatus
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🚨 A widespread service provider outage is also affecting Epic Games Store an Epic Online Services, preventing a number of areas including log-ins. We're investigating this and will provide an update as we have more info.
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@artman
Tuomas Artman
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The AWS outage lasted 15h. The Gov outage has lasted 21 days and still ongoing. When can we expect the next status update and root cause analysis?
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@nottuxedosam
Tuxedo Sam
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wow the last AWS status update is incredible [image]
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@aravsrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
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Perplexity and Comet are back up running and stable for the last two hours. Thanks for waiting!
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@amazonnews
@amazonnews
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Update on AWS service event. [screenshot: “On October 20 at 12:11 AM PDT, AWS reported increased error rates for multiple services and determined that the issue was related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoints in the N. Virginia (us-east-1) Region. The underlying DNS…
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@davidcrawshaw
David Crawshaw
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It's very secure, no one can access it. [image]
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@senwarren
Elizabeth Warren
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If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period. It's time to break up Big Tech.
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@coinbasesupport
@coinbasesupport
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Update: we're seeing early signs of recovery, with some users being able to access and use Coinbase services now. Our team is still working on this issue with top priority. We will continue to provide updates as the situation changes.
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@m_franceschetti
Matteo Franceschetti
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The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently
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@eosstatus
@eosstatus
on x
✅ Service issues are resolved! Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services are fully recovered and have all returned to normal. We'll continue to monitor this to ensure everything remains stable.
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@rjonesy
Ryan Jones
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App Store is down. 🧐 Fishy [image]
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
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Bro, the @audible_com iOS app is just totally fucked right now. I stupidly logged out on iPad and now can't log back in. Hopefully it's working in the next 5 hours because I have an early flight to catch with bad WiFi.
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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Is your favorite service down? Amazon's US-EAST-1 Region woke up with Main Character Syndrome. Result? Massive outages. Amazon says more updates by 5AM Eastern. [image]
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@internetofshit
@internetofshit
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I genuinely cannot believe a BED stops working because of an amazon outage. the jokes are literally writing themselves.
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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Today's a fantastic day to make no configuration changes to your production environments. If something goes wonky, you'll go mad trying to figure out if it's the AWS issue (possibly reflected through a vendor of yours who uses them) vs. your own shitty, shitty code.
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@hetzner_online
@hetzner_online
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@samwhoo Just to clarify: no roast intended here. We were simply saying that our infra runs independently, not on AWS or Vercel. Of course, any provider can have hiccups & outages can happen anywhere; we're just sharing facts, not taking shots ✌️ -Lea
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@basedbeffjezos
@basedbeffjezos
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how the f*ck is @signalapp down rn?
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@chshersh
Dmitrii Kovanikov
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Rest assured, Bloomberg is not severely impacted by AWS outages, because we have our own data centres. You can continue receiving high-quality financial data as usual.
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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EVERYTHING IS FINE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE BUT ALSO HERE IS A LINK TO OUR STATUS PAGE JUST BECAUSE. The @awscloud banner at the top of their entire site is a master class in corporate compromise. [image]
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@rauchg
Guillermo Rauch
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This is what the AWS us-east-1 outage looked like on our graphs. Despite its catastrophic and rare nature, Vercel was still able to successfully serve billions of requests. But let me be clear: our goal is for zero requests to fail. I'm really sorry to our customers and [image]
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@hetzner_online
@hetzner_online
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Guess who's not down 👀 [image]
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
on x
@IterIntellectus Not us
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@plmatchcentre
@plmatchcentre
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Due to the impact of today's global AWS outage, this evening's match will begin without the use of Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT). If required, the VAR will use virtual offside lines, as in previous seasons, to determine an offside decision. If SAOT becomes available
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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AWS sure does ask an awful lot of engineers to implement quicksort on whiteboards during their interviews to be this shit at sorting service names in outage reports: [image]
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@anothercohen
Alex Cohen
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The AI coding assistant at AWS trying to figure out why AWS is down but it's hosted on AWS and also down [image]
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@antoniogm
Antonio García Martínez
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Let's see whether AWS or the Federal government going down has a bigger impact on my life. (I think I know the answer.)
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@allgarbled
@allgarbled
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This bed is connected to the internet for an amazing reason
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@benhylak
Ben
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.@rauchg found out there was an AWS outage because his @eightsleep was warm. that's a feature, not a bug. perfectly meets the needs of their target demographic.
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@rauchg
Guillermo Rauch
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I want to specially thank the @vercel team for working around the clock to keep customers safe and available. In fact, I was sleeping, it was 2am~ ish, and I was alerted about this issue because my internet mattress (which I love, shoutout to @eightsleep) was warm 😅, which led [i…
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@dhh
@dhh
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I swear we didn't plan this, but just today, we finally NUKED our entire AWS account at the 37signals company meetup! This followed moving out compute+dbs in 2023, then S3 this summer, and now finally the entire account is GONE 🎉 [video]
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@samwhoo
Sam Rose
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Strongly dislike when companies do this. Especially companies providing technical infrastructure. You're not down today, but one day you will be. You work under the same constraints everyone else does. You know how stressful it is when it happens to you. Be better.
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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I cannot recall this ever happening: Amazon's flagship property (and cash cow) Amazon .com having issues throughout the day, due to AWS infra problems. It's easy to criticize Google for not building Google Search on GCP - but as a result, Search has no GCP dependencies! [image]
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@stevesi
Steven Sinofsky
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CNN using the AWS outage to complain about Amazon “monopoly” is one nutty thing. Concluding that “relying on _just_ three major providers shows the inherent risk in the system” is even nuttier. 1/2
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@sqs
Quinn Slack
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Even amazon dot com is down. I don't recall that happening in past AWS outages. This must be a big one. [image]
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@rauchg
Guillermo Rauch
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Like many others, Vercel is seeing impact from the AWS outage in us-east-1 (IAD). Our service is global in nature, which means the impact from this outage has varied by customer and region. We've taken steps to fail over a number of services. The IAD CDN region was rerouted,
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@trungtphan
Trung Phan
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Looks like most websites are back up after the Amazon Web Services global outage. But my iPhone video apps aren't working. Anyone else having this issue? [image]
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@internetofshit
@internetofshit
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bed overheated because AWS-east was down. but um....... its good because it alerted them to the outage? i dont even know what to do with this shit
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can't see outside their house, definitely scary” just look outside your window 😅 [video]
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@lloydsbank
Lloyds
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You may have seen reports of issues with Amazon Web Services affecting a number of websites and apps across the UK today. We know this is impacting some of our services right now. We're sorry about this. Please bear with us as we investigate this.
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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It means that AWS is in the loop and can take out Signal at any time
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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Pretty weird that an AWS outage caused Signal to fail ...
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@positivfuturist
Andy
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UK Gov websites running outta US-East-1 ? [image]
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@netcapgirl
Sophie
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when your ai girlfriend was on aws us east 1 [image]
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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𝕏 works
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@dougmadory
Doug Madory
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.@awscloud has blamed today's massive outage on the “DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1.” @kentikinc observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted. [image]
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@grousark
Nick Grous
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The AWS outage is arguably more impactful to someone just going about their day to day life than the government shutdown. That should tell you everything about the strategic importance of the cloud players.
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@tszzl
Roon
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the digital world is significantly less centralized around aws from the last time there was a major outage. every big company has rushed to build their own datacenters and azure rose as a major player
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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I don't trust Signal anymore
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@mer__edith
Meredith Whittaker
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Hi!✌️Personally, I'm not a fan of vibes-based trust. First VERIFY, then trust, is my motto. Which is why Signal is open source. We want everyone to be able to inspect our code, and our encryption protocol, and see for themselves the lengths we go to to protect your comms and
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@dhh
@dhh
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We've undermined, if not vandalized, the beauty of the internet by centralizing so much with the cloud. But it's never too late to fix that mistake.
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@iterintellectus
Vittorio
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the internet just broke [image]
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@gregisenberg
Greg Isenberg
on x
AWS being down for 3 hours and more than half the internet shutting off is today's reminder that every app is an AWS wrapper
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@photomatt
Matt Mullenweg
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Just a reminder that @WordPressVIP and @wordpressdotcom are natively real-time multidatacenter , and not on AWS, Azure, or GCP, so not impacted by this. Most services and hosts can't do that, or charge you an arm and leg to try.
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@dhh
@dhh
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Cloud marketing convinced a generation of programmers that the scariest thing in the world was to connect their own server to the internet. All so they could be sold and resold the same centralized dependencies at huge markups. https://www.youtube.com/... [image]
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@daniellockyer
Daniel Lockyer
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it's always DNS [image]
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@geerlingguy
Jeff Geerling
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Ah us-east-1. The primary region for so many apps. Also to many app dev's surprise, the *only* region they ever tested without backup/failover elsewhere
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@molly0xfff
Molly White
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extremely funny to see Elon trying to use the AWS outage to promote his chat product, but actually just exposing that he has no idea what e2ee is
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@tekbog
@tekbog
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multi cloud multi az systems engineers right now [image]
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@birdabo404
Sui Dev
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🚨 BREAKING: half of the internet is down. > is there no alternative to AWS 😭 [image]
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@mrshibolet
@mrshibolet
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First day at AWS, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️ [image]
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@lefterisjp
Lefteris Karapetsas
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AWS is down and then the internet stops working. But the blockchain, it never goe ... wait a minute. Scratch that. This sector is a joke. Everyone preaching decentralization and censorship resistance but in reality ... it's all 100% reliant on the cloud. [image]
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@lakeaustinblvd
Sam Rhea
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You can use Cloudflare Radar to follow the impacts of the AWS outage this morning in real-time. We're observing traffic dropping by about 71% of where it normally is on a Monday morning. [image]
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@cloudflareradar
@cloudflareradar
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A significant AWS outage has been declared. Cloudflare data shows a clear drop in AS14618, associated with AWS's US-East-1 region (Ashburn, Virginia) — one of AWS's largest and busiest data center regions — starting around 07:00 UTC. Traffic fell by as much as 68% at 08:00 UTC. […
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@sandislonjsak
Sandi Slonjšak
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Today is my first day at AWS. I noticed a small bug in DynamoDB clustering implementation and I think I fixed it. Shipped to prod already. Going to make a coffee and will check back if everything is working.
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@zerohedge
@zerohedge
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Internet Outage Sparked By “Operational Issues” At Amazon AWS Data Centers In Northern Virginia https://www.zerohedge.com/...
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@scrypto_
@scrypto_
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Are you saying our immutable decentralized Blockchain applications run on aws east
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@askrobinhood
@askrobinhood
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Robinhood services are back online and recovering. Thanks for your patience.
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@qianl_cs
Qian Li
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AWS seems to have a major outage in the us-east-1 region right now 😵💫 https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ...
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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Can't log in this morning? Amazon's US-EAST-1 Region woke up with Main Character Syndrome. Result? Massive outages. Amazon says more updates by 5AM Eastern. [image]
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@pierbapt
Pierre-Baptiste Borges
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AWS is down. Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack, ... Half of the internet is affected [image]
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@functi0nzer0
Laurence
on x
Angrily tapping my debit card against the reader trying to pay for groceries but getting bounced because it's a crypto card settling on an L2 supported entirely by Amazon datacenters The future of finance
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@lukerramsden
Luke Ramsden
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When us-east-1 goes down, even AWS support goes down with it [image]
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@jezcorden
Jez
on x
Amazon just took down half of the internet. INCLUDING MY SMART LIGHTS. THANKS AMAZON. https://www.windowscentral.com/ ...
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@calilyliu
Lily Liu
on x
Amazon doesn't need to launch its own chain - it already runs one. Turns out it is the real L1 for half of this industry.
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@basedbeffjezos
@basedbeffjezos
on x
us-east-1 is down and the whole tech TL is crashing out
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@hiteshdotcom
Hitesh Choudhary
on x
Welcome to Diwali outage of AWS. (And few more services)
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@patrick_nealis
Patrick Nealis
on x
Can someone please go to Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and unplug them, wait 30 seconds, then plug them back in? The entire US-EAST-1 region is down. #AWS #Outage
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@uttam_singhk
Uttam
on x
engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page [image]
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@praveeninpublic
Praveen Kumar
on x
Wow! I never knew AWS could have worldwide outage. [image]
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@jreakin
John R. Eakin
on x
Oh so basically the backbone of... everything in the US. Awesome. Just awesome. Happy Monday to everyone not using AWS. [image]
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@lloydsbank
Lloyds
on x
We know some of our services were affected by issues with Amazon Web Services this morning. We're sorry about this. All of our services are now running as normal.
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@altcoinpsycho
@altcoinpsycho
on x
gotta love seeing 95% of crypto down because of an AWS outage very decentralized - great work lads 👍
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@danielrpk
Daniel Richtman
on x
Major internet outage is currently happening, almost everything is down except Twitter 😭
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@edludlow
Ed Ludlow
on x
Global AWS outage, DNS/DynamoDB issues, service resumed. Amazon shares +0.6% [image]
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
on x
Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity, Amazon .com both down (just 2 services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes, the whole world feels it indeed
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@framer
@framer
on x
⚠️ Due to an incident at AWS some users might not be able to access Framer, or Publish their site. Please keep an eye on https://www.framerstatus.com/
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@reach_vb
@reach_vb
on x
us-east-1 is down i.e. all your major apps/ platforms or down too 🫠 go touch grass or something in the meantime [image]
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@jezcorden
Jez
on x
my office lights stopped working cus of an Amazon Web Services outage. FML
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@askrobinhood
@askrobinhood
on x
Robinhood services are impacted due to issues at AWS, one of our third party vendors. We're working to resolve this ASAP.
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
on x
The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange “AWS dependencies” such that I can't read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head. You can also do file transfers and audio/video calls.
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@nonfungiblemomo
@nonfungiblemomo
on x
AWS down. Vercel down. Half the internet is broken. Time to touch grass. [image]
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@zoealannahx
Zoe Alannah
on x
AWS engineers right now [image]
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@heyandras
Andras Bacsai
on x
Every service right now: we are working on a mitigation plan. In reality: we cannot do anything, so we are touching grass until AWS fix everything.
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@reuning
Kevin Reuning
on bluesky
>And so, a quiet suspicion starts to circulate: where have the senior AWS engineers who've been to this dance before gone? And the answer increasingly is that they've left the building — taking decades of hard-won institutional knowledge about how AWS's systems work at scale rig…
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@justingarrison.com
Justin Garrison
on bluesky
When you treat your employees like crap you'll still ship your org chart — www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/ a...
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@tradeinsight.info
@tradeinsight.info
on bluesky
Vercel's issues seem from their infrastructure provider. #aws — AWS had significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. — Luckily we didn't put all eggs in one bucket, our notification service depends on none of them.😄🤞 …
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@renevega
Rene
on bluesky
and now with all th ISPs DNS caches poisoned, it will be several hours to a day before it all gets cleaned up.
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@evalentin25
Eddie Valentin
on bluesky
This is what happens when one company has a 30-percent share of the global cloud computing market. — www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
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@davemark.com
Dave Mark
on bluesky
Amazing to me how many apps I use that are impacted by this AWS outage. — And none of the failures blame AWS, they just put up an error message. Or the interface gets a little screwy. — Single point of failure is a troubling dependency. — #technology
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@katebevan.com
Kate Bevan
on bluesky
I see that Teams is unaffected by the AWS outage *sigh*
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@cervine.online
@cervine.online
on bluesky
I know the answer is just “shit complicated” but why does health.aws.amazon.com redirect to health.aws.amazon.com/health/ status — Making my url longer for fun
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@annepmitchell
@annepmitchell
on bluesky
FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE AMAZON OUTAGES — Here is the direct link to where Amazon themselves updates people in the industry: — health.aws.amazon.com/health/ status [image]
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@watchdogprg
@watchdogprg
on bluesky
Platform outage monitor Downdetector says it has seen more than 6.5 million reports globally, affecting more than 1,000 companies. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
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@mariafarrell
Maria Farrell
on bluesky
But tell me again why you <have> to use AWS because you can only get security with planetary (oligopoly) scale [embedded post]
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@explaintrade.com
Dmitry Grozoubinski
on bluesky
Roses are red, — Violets are blue, — AWS is down, — So I can't Google rhymes.
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@pookleblinky
@pookleblinky
on bluesky
Have hobbies that you can still do if us-east-1 is down. — You gotta wonder if anyone has bothered correlating bottish behaviour on social media with AWS outages. — Is there a lull of weirdly aggressive bluesky replies, etc
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@ellipsus.com
@ellipsus.com
on bluesky
We're affected by the AWS outage (US-East). For the record we don't store your data in the US, but one of our third-parties relies on it so here we are... www.theverge.com/news/802486/ ...
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@samfr
Sam Freedman
on bluesky
Apparently the issue with AWS “appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1 Region”. — Can someone translate that into English and explain how serious it is?
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@drbeth
Dr Beth
on bluesky
Another day when the assimilation of the internet into a tiny number of hands becomes obvious. AWS (Amazon web services) goes down and takes half the internet with it!
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@mattpope
Dr Matt Pope
on bluesky
I thought the internet emerged partially from designs to build resilience in information networks in the face of localised outage (nuclear strikes). Now we have massive servers presenting high-risk points of massive failure. #AWS
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@karolinschwarz.de
@karolinschwarz.de
on bluesky
Good day for some digital detoxing. — www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
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@tomwarren.co.uk
Tom Warren
on bluesky
there's a major AWS outage going on right now that's taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/ ...
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@bsd.cafe
Stefano Marinelli
on bluesky
“Use the cloud”, they say. “You'll always be online”, they say. — #aws #awsdown
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@dhothersall
Duncan Hothersall
on bluesky
There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivit…
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@jamesomalley.co.uk
James O'Malley
on bluesky
Because AWS is down, I can't turn on my heating.
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@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Gergely Orosz
on bluesky
Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!! — So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS re…
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@hern
Alex Hern
on bluesky
Today's the day I remember why I don't have a smart home
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@cruickshank
Michael Cruickshank
on bluesky
ARPA: By creating a dense network with decentralised nodes, we can make a resilient communications system. — AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes? [embedded post]
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@moonjam.com
AJ Jefferies
on bluesky
AWS services down, meaning I cannot use the software (I pay for) to be able to do my job. — I'm starting to think that making everything in the modern world entirely dependant on subscription based packages that all have the exact same weak-point might be... bad!?!
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@jonkuperman.com
Jon Kuperman
on bluesky
Always fun to find out all the apps you use that are on aws
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@bwebster@mastodon.social
Brian Webster
on mastodon
It was picture day at my daughter's school today. We just got a text from the school saying picture day has been postponed due to the Amazon Web Services outage. 😂🤦♂️🫠
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social
Julian Oliver
on mastodon
Reading paragraphs like these in front page mainstream media gives me hope tickles: — “Dr Corinne Cath-Speth, the head of digital at human rights organisation Article 19, said: “We urgently need diversification in cloud computing. …
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@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social
Jeff Johnson
on mastodon
In its latest statement, AWS says the issue that caused the mass outage has now been “fully mitigated.” — [image]
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social
on mastodon
AWS outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say — https://www.theguardian.com/ ... #HackerNews #AWS #outage #internetproviders #technews #cloudservices #weboutage
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social
@Lazarou@mastodon.social
on mastodon
It's a shame our politicians seems to be under the sway of American Tech Bros, it's becoming a critical weakness. — https://www.theguardian.com/ ... #AWS #Amazon #TechBros #Technology #UKPOL #UKpolitics
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@fj@mastodon.social
Frederic Jacobs
on mastodon
Today is “reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1” day. — https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ... [images]
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r/Layoffs
r
on reddit
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
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r/aws
r
on reddit
DynamoDB down us-east-1 — Well, looks like we have a dumpster fire on DynamoDB in us-east-1 again.
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r/sysadmin
r
on reddit
If you were the AWS server guy
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r/remotework
r
on reddit
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
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r/amazonemployees
r
on reddit
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
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r/alexa
r
on reddit
Anybody else having their Alexa say, “Sorry, the internet isn't reachable”?
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r/technology
r
on reddit
AWS services recover after daylong outage hits major sites
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r/technology
r
on reddit
What is US-East-1? Why AWS Northern Virginia server issues took down half the internet
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r/worldnews
r
on reddit
AWS outage: Company working to restore service as users report a resurgence in issues
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r/Wellthatsucks
r
on reddit
AWS Outage
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r/NewsStarWorld
r
on reddit
What has caused AWS outage today - and why did it make the internet fall apart?
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r/technews
r
on reddit
What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
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r/tech
r
on reddit
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
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r/pcmasterrace
r
on reddit
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
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r/ICGA
r
on reddit
Ha morto AWS