"As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the outage originated in the public cloud giant's US-East-1 datacentre region in North Virginia, and caused large-scale disruption to a host of companies across the world, including in the UK. Social media and communications services such as Snapchat and Signal suffered disruption to their services, as did Amazon-owned internet entities such as its retail site, Ring doorbell and Alexa services."
"As a result, HM Treasury is now facing calls to give an account as to why - given its role as a major supplier of cloud services to the UK financial services sector - AWS has not been called into scope of its Critical Third Parties (CTP) regime before now. The initiative gives HM Treasury powers to designate suppliers to the financial services sector as being CTP, meaning their activities can be brought into the supervisory scope of the UK's various financial regulators."
AWS issued an apology after its largest US datacentre region suffered a 14-hour outage on 20 October, causing service disruptions worldwide. The outage originated in the US-East-1 region in North Virginia and impacted social media and communications services including Snapchat and Signal, as well as Amazon-owned services such as its retail site, Ring doorbell and Alexa. UK organisations affected included Lloyds Bank Group, Halifax, Royal Bank of Scotland, and HM Revenue and Customs. HM Treasury faces calls to explain why AWS was not designated under the Critical Third Parties regime. AWS published a post-event summary confirming three outage phases and multiple infrastructure issues, starting with DynamoDB problems just before 8am UK time.
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