In the last few hours, there has been tremendous chaos in several servers, video game pages, applications and social networks have presented multiple failures. This is due to the intermittency and fall of the service in the United States of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon’s own cloud platform.
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According to the information, the failure has had repercussions worldwide, affecting various platforms for having some type of link with Amazon servers. The fault has remained persistent from the early hours of the morning of this Monday, October 20.
From Airbnb to Reddit, to online video games like Roblox and Brawl Stars, a part of the global internet and applications used by millions of users were affected.
The drop in services has also affected economic platforms, such as Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange site. According to Downdetector, where Internet users report if they encounter problems connecting, the failure It also affected Amazon’s own platforms such as Prime Video.
Other sites like Epic Games, Fornite, Zoom, Duolingo, Signal, Hulu, Clash Royale, Roku, Steam y Spectrum have also been affected. Despite the decline in these services, some users have managed to use these various platforms, experiencing many interruptions in their use.
AWS downfall revives discussion on dependency on external services
With the failure of AWS services and the impact on hundreds of platforms, the discussion about dependence on servers in other countries revived. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet concentrate an important part of customers around the world, according to Junade Ali, a cybersecurity expert at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the United Kingdom.
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The incident raises “serious doubts” about the appropriateness of companies “outsource all or part of their essential infrastructure to a small group from external suppliers in order to save,” added British financial analyst Michael Hewson.