"Apps and platforms relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing service, were in a jam this morning after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet - in a striking example of how infrastructure consolidation makes the modern internet vulnerable to a failure by a single major provider. The affected platforms ranged from messaging apps like Snapchat and Signal to video games like Roblox and Fortnite, as well as financial service platforms like Venmo, Robinhood, and Chime, according to the Associated Press."
"Devices relying on AWS were also disrupted, like Amazon's Ring doorbell surveillance cameras, and many Alexa home assistants, which require a constant connection to the internet. "BREAKING: half of the internet is down," seethed one netizen. "Is there no alternative to AWS[?]" Overall, some 1,000 companies were left reeling from the outage, with over one million complaints logged in the US, and more than 800,000 from the UK, per Newsweek."
An hours-long outage in Amazon Web Services disrupted a large portion of the internet, affecting messaging apps, video games, financial platforms, airlines, telecoms, and news services. Devices dependent on AWS, including Ring cameras and Alexa assistants, lost connectivity and functionality. The outage generated over one million complaints in the US and hundreds of thousands more internationally, impacting roughly 1,000 companies. Local reports indicate the failure originated from a cascading issue in Amazon's US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, a dense data-center cluster. Most services were restored by sunrise Monday, underscoring vulnerability from concentrated cloud market control.
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