Amazon broke the web (for a bit)

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

The firm has already fastened the DNS difficulty that induced the outage, however a failure like this, which knocks out so rattling a lot of the web, ought to function a reminder. After all, having so many crucial techniques in the identical basket implies that when one thing goes fallacious, quite a lot of the web stops working. All directly.

— Dan Cooper

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