The Morning After: Amazon Broke The Internet (for A Bit)

A decent-sized chunk of nan net stopped moving aft a reasonably monolithic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — moreover Amazon’s ain products went connected nan fritz. Your humble narrator’s Ring Chimes started turning their nighttime lights connected and disconnected wholly astatine random, pinch nary prompting from yours truly.

The institution has already fixed nan DNS rumor that caused nan outage, but a nonaccomplishment for illustration this, which knocks retired truthful damn overmuch of nan internet, should service arsenic a reminder. After all, having truthful galore captious systems successful nan aforesaid handbasket intends that erstwhile thing goes wrong, a batch of nan net stops working. All astatine once.

— Dan Cooper

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