#aws-outage

#aws-outage

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which has disrupted leading UK banks and global services, has once again revealed the fragility of this dependence. The incident bears striking similarities to the CrowdStrike disruption seen last year, both demonstrating how a single failure in a major technology provider can cascade across industries. For instance, customers, including myself, have been unable to log into the Lloyds Banking Group app, while widespread reports confirm disruptions across Barclays, Lloyds Bank, and the Bank of Scotland.

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Whether basic communications using apps such as Snapchat, Signal and Reddit to airlines such as Delta and United reporting disruptions to their customer facing operations, when these services go down it highlights the reliance on just a few cloud services companies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, ANd Google Cloud) to run the country so to speak. The AWS outage has further impacted shopping websites, banking apps, and even streaming and smart homes devices.

Deep into first half stoppage time, Brentford had scored a second goal through Igor Thiago, but it was later ruled out for offside. Because of SAOT not being available at the time, the check took longer than usual, as lines had to be drawn by the video assistant referee, as used in previous seasons. Despite the lack of SAOT, the correct decision of offside was still reached.

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.

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"We continue to investigate the root cause for the network connectivity issues," wrote Amazon Web Services (AWS) late Monday morning. Coinbase acknowledged the impact of the AWS outage on its services. "Many online services, including Coinbase, experienced issues," a spokesperson said in a statement to Fortune. "Coinbase services have recovered. Some older asset transfer requests are still pending, which we are investigating."