BERLIN / LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – After a massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), normal operations on the Internet are returning. The outage, which brought down numerous websites and services, was traced to a DNS problem at a data center in Virginia. Experts are now analyzing the causes in order to avoid future failures.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading provider of cloud computing services, recently experienced one of the most severe disruptions to the Internet this year. This disruption caused widespread outages across numerous websites and applications, including popular platforms such as Snapchat, Reddit and Fortnite. Business applications such as Slack and Zoom were also affected. The cause of the outage was traced to a problem in the Domain Name System (DNS) at an AWS data center in northern Virginia.
The DNS acts as the telephone book of the Internet by converting web addresses into IP addresses. A failure in this system can have far-reaching consequences by affecting the accessibility of websites and services. AWS has announced that it will comprehensively analyze the causes of the disruption in order to prevent similar incidents in the future. The incident highlights the dependence of many companies on AWS as a cloud provider and the potential risks associated with this dependence.
In Great Britain, in addition to Amazon services, systems of several banks and the British tax administration were also affected. At times, customers were unable to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on the Coinbase crypto exchange. The AI search engine Perplexity and the messenger service Signal were also affected by the disruption. These far-reaching impacts demonstrate how central AWS has become to the infrastructure of the Internet.
As the leader in cloud computing, AWS offers a variety of services used by startups and large enterprises alike. The ability to rent IT resources such as computing power and storage space over the Internet makes AWS an attractive partner for many companies. However, the recent incident also highlights the risks associated with such a centralized infrastructure. Experts emphasize the need to increase the resilience of cloud services and develop alternative solutions to reduce dependence on individual providers.
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