Amazon broke the web (for a bit)

An honest-sized chunk of the web stopped working after a reasonably huge Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — even Amazon’s own products went on the fritz. Your humble narrator’s Ring Chimes began turning their evening lights on and off solely at random, with no prompting from yours really.

The corporate has already fastened the DNS problem that precipitated the outage, however a failure like this, which knocks out so rattling a lot of the web, ought to function a reminder. In any case, having so many crucial methods in the identical basket signifies that when one thing goes incorrect, a number of the web stops working. All of sudden.

— Dan Cooper

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