Multi Website Outage

[wwkirk]

I haven't been able to access IMDB for hours.
Amazon Web Services outage hits sites and apps such as IMDb and Tinder

 

[wwkirk]

I didn't realize Amazon was more than an online retail "monopoly."
Amazon Web Services outage affects large swaths of internet

Some sites affected:
Among the companies that use Amazon Web Services are:

Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Baidu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Disney, Docker, Dow Jones, European Space Agency, ESPN, Expedia, Financial Times, FINRA, General Electric, GoSquared and Guardian News & Media.

Also, Harvard Medical School, Hearst Corporation, Hitachi, HTC, IMDb, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, International Civil Aviation Organization, ITV, iZettle, Johnson & Johnson, JustGiving, JWT, Kaplan, Kellogg's, Lamborghini, Lonely Planet, Lyft, Made.com, McDonalds, NASA, NASDAQ OMX, National Rail Enquiries, National Trust, Netflix, News International, News UK, Nokia, Nordstrom and Novartis.

Also, Pfizer, Philips, Pinterest, Quantas, Reddit, Sage, Samsung, SAP, Schneider Electric, Scribd, Securitas Direct, Siemens, Slack, Sony, SoundCloud, Spotify, Square Enix, Tata Motors, The Weather Company, Twitch, Turner Broadcasting,Ticketmaster, Time Inc., Trainline, Ubisoft, UCAS, Unilever, US Department of State, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, UK Ministry of Justice, Vodafone Italy, WeTransfer, WIX, Xiaomi, Yelp, Zynga and Zillow.
Amazon Crash Sparks Internet Outages Across NYC, Nation

 

[nivek]

Wow, a cyber attack maybe?...

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[wwkirk]

Wow, a cyber attack maybe?...

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Whether is is or not, seems like a bad idea to have so much dependent on one cloud service.

 

[wwkirk]

Outage appears to be over.