This, along with some of the world’s most popular apps, Snapchat and Reddit, and disrupted businesses globally.
The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies.
After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems were gradually coming back online as of 12h00 CAT, with AWS saying it was seeing “significant signs of recovery” for some impacted services.
“Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests,” it said in the latest update on the outage posted on its status page.
AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.
AWS competes with Google and Microsoft’s cloud services.
Asked for comment on the outage, AWS directed Reuters to its status page. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.
Junade Ali, a Software Engineer, Cyber Expert and Fellow at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, said the issue appeared to be with one of the networking systems AWS uses to control a database product.
“As this issue can usually be resolved centrally, unless there are further issues identified, the issue should be able to be mitigated over the coming hours,” he said.
–Reuters–
