How Amazon keeps crashing the Internet

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the web-hosting service that powers huge swathes of the Internet, has crashed three times in December, taking down services like Disney+, Netflix, Starbucks and Zoom for hours


PROBLEMS WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Dec 7, Cloud Region: US-EAST-1 (West Virginia) 
Downtime: 7 hours
Cause: Impaired network devices

Dec 15
Cloud Regions:
US-West-1
US-West-2
(California, Oregon)
Downtime: 2 hours
Cause: Internet connectivity issue

Dec 22
Cloud Region:
US-EAST-1
(West Virginia)
Downtime: 2 hours 
Cause: Power failure

UNITED STATES


AFFECTED SERVICES INCLUDE:
Amazon, Apex Legends, Coinbase, Epic Games, Hulu, McDonalds, PlayStation, U.S. Postal Service, Ring, Roku, Slack, Snapchat, Tinder


GLOBAL OUTAGES RESULTING FROM AWS CRASHES

Outages are reminder of what can happen when single company controls so much infrastructure


Sources: Gizmodo, DCD, Snowflake, Is The Service Down?
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