AWS is down - internet in shambles

MudoSkills said:
It's going to be a bad day at the office for a lot of people.
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My nephew and niece have got faces like smacked asses, it's the first day of the school holidays and it's pissing down with rain and both roblox and fortnite are down. 😂
 
This is going to get more and more common in the future. Whether or not this was a malicious disruption, big companies have actively been turning the internet into a playground/smorgasbord for cyber criminals.
 
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Hypereides said:
This is going to get more and more common in the future. Whether or not this was a malicious disruption, big companies have actively been turning the internet into a playground/smorgasbord for cyber criminals.
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It was only last year that one of the big payment processors went down. It was only becuse I still carry cash that I was able to buy what I wanted.
 
When I saw the title I was "the channel Your Movie Suck died?"

I guess I'm bad with acronyms... Or reading
 
I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical.
 
Nocty said:
I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical.
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Its why those that want digital only transactions need to realize that there are substantial risks with moving that way. Needs to be both cash and cashless options for payments.
 
This is kinda cool because since there's absolutely nothing I can do about it, I don't have to do anything. I'm going to knock off early and go take a nap.
 
OLED_Gamer said:
Its why those that want digital only transactions need to realize that there are substantial risks with moving that way. Needs to be both cash and cashless options for payments.
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cash payments are at risk due to financial market instability though, especially exchange rates and what not.

The world is a very insecure place at the moment.
 
All my shit at work didn't work, couldn't make signs, place orders, do scans, fix schedules, add new employees.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
Crazy.

I dont follow soccer, but I dont think anyone would think of AWS running sports stuff like this. I guess they do!
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Yep, I used to work at AWS in the AWS Elemental team. Worked with the Premier League to troubleshoot quite a few services they used. This was back in 2020/2021.
 
DKehoe said:
Yeh, it just goes to show how deeply embedded it is in people's day-to-day lives.

Edit: StreetsofBeige StreetsofBeige you're Canadian right? I just saw this

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Yup.

Game is at 8 pm. So they got 6 hours from that tweet to resolve issues till game time. Better hurry up as the dome fits around 40,000 people. lol

I'll be at a pub eating wings!
 
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nush said:
It was only last year that one of the big payment processors went down. It was only becuse I still carry cash that I was able to buy what I wanted.
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Someday, you will go to your bank and they won't give you cash because, "their system is down." -_-
 
Have they said what the cause is? Hopefully its not the zero ring antivirus software they use f'n up things again....

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As of October 20, 2025, the cause of the widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has been identified as a Domain Name System (DNS) issue impacting one of its largest databases, DynamoDB.
What caused the outage
  • The outage stemmed from an "operational incident" within AWS's US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, a major hub for its cloud services.
  • The problem specifically involved the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates human-readable web addresses into computer-friendly addresses.
  • The DNS issue led to latency and error rates in the DynamoDB database, which impacted a massive number of websites and applications that rely on AWS.
  • On October 20, Amazon acknowledged that a recent system update designed to monitor network load had multiple flaws, which contributed to the problem.
How it was resolved
  • Amazon has been working on fixing the issue by throttling the creation of new instances of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and taking steps to help the faulty monitoring system recover.
  • As of the afternoon of October 20, connectivity and API recovery were being seen for most services, though some residual problems remained. "
 
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