AWS-East API having outage
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Amazon AWS outage takes down Disney+, Alexa, and more - 9to5Mac
Amazon’s AWS cloud servers are suffering from issues this morning, taking down a handful of services including Disney+, Kindle, Tinder,...
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Yup; I thought I mentioned that above. Thanks for asking.
I'll bet you're right. But before I realized that Amazon was having an outage, I assumed what Alexa told me was true and I needed to re-link my account. Online here Amazon Sign-In it still showed my two accounts linked. So I de-linked them to se if I could get it back. Unfortunately, once I did that, I could not link them again until after 8PM.
Explanation from Amazon: Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
My eyes glazed over partway through the first paragraph.
My eyes glazed over partway through the first paragraph.
I read maybe half. My takeaway is that this occurred on their internal network due to an automatic scaling algorithm that scaled up network use (particularly their DNS requests) well beyond capacity. Because it was on their internal network, they had a hell of a time diagnosing because all that network monitoring software was impacted as well.
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