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Huge internet outage leaves Snapchat, Ring doorbell, HMRC and more not working​

Andrew Griffin
Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites have suddenly stopped working properly.

Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva were all suffering problems, according to tracking website Down Detector.


The issues began around 8am in the UK, or midnight pacific time.

The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers infrastructure that underpins much of the modern internet.

The company was seeing “increased error rates” and delays with “multiple AWS services”, it said on its service status page.

Amazon Web Services provides a host of internet infrastructure services that allow companies to hire computers and servers to run their apps and websites. As such, any problems at AWS can quickly affect much of the rest of the internet, bringing down websites that might have no apparent connection to Amazon itself.

It is now the most popular provider of such cloud services in the world. It made $108 billion last year, and it now accounts for the majority of Amazon’s profits.

AWS internet outage: Key points​

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Lasting almost an hour is shocking to me especially with how many servers AWS services have for this kind of situation.
 
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Rekieta’s Broken Penis said:
I’ve never understood why the IT industry is so obsessed with outsourcing to AWS. It seems shortsighted, even if outages like this are quite rare.
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Because building and maintaining your own data center means you have to also train and maintain the techs who are there 99% of the time to sit around, except for the 1% of time where shit goes sideways. By putting it “in the cloud”, then those salaries and such are Amazon’s problem and you just have to pay the monthly fee which is far less than what Amazon pays for the whole infrastructure.

It’s a huge outlay of cash at first for Amazon, or any colocation data center, but the fees they collect quickly recoup the costs, and once it’s set up the costs to keep it running even out.
 
You can monitor it at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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And this story right here is the top reason why it's a stupid idea to even have an "Internet Of Things", or require offline software to connect to the internet to even work.
 
I was promised a dystopian future where I could eat noodles while wearing a black vinyl trenchcoat in Neo-Tokyo and cyberjacking into MegaCorp's mainframe but instead my doorbell doesn't fucking work because some H1B pajeet is too busy drinking cow piss and smearing cow shit all over himself because of some holiday. Fuck this gay timeline.
 
AWS seemingly has an outage every 4-5 years. I love it when it happens because it's not happening to me, and also fuck AWS in general.
 
Rekieta’s Broken Penis said:
I’ve never understood why the IT industry is so obsessed with outsourcing to AWS. It seems shortsighted, even if outages like this are quite rare.
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neverendingmidi said:
Because building and maintaining your own data center means you have to also train and maintain the techs who are there 99% of the time to sit around, except for the 1% of time where shit goes sideways.
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There's are two big components:

- The True & Honest efficiency of sharing idle resources, not having to overprovision for peak hours, etc, which is legit to the degree that your outages and spikes are uncorrelated with others, so it's similar to insurance

- The ((finance implications)) of turning Capital Expenditures into Operating Expenses: similar to owning a house/store vs. selling it & renting it back, reducing CapEx means a smaller capital base to spread your earnings over which improves a bunch of ((metrics)) like return on capital etc. But it also reduces your cash flow & net earnings by a corresponding amount.

What's hilarious is that all that scale and distributed redundancy etc. seems to still be countered by massive single-point failures/incompetency that take 1/4 the internet offline every however many months.
 
Both my college courses AND my work schedule use AWS services. We’re so cooked because of jeet tech monopolies
 
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