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[GeekyDad]

Amazon cloud outage hits major websites, streaming apps

A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services on Tuesday, temporarily knocking out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, a wide range of apps and Amazon.com Inc's e-commerce website as consumers shopped ahead of Christmas.

www.reuters.com

Hacked?

 

[Lunarorbit]

Literally just looked at my prime account to track a package. Didn't have a problem

 

[Dural]

Something I use for work that is cloud based has been down since 11am, wonder if it's related to this.

 

[VN1X]

Well, it was nice knowing you guys.

Godspeed gentlemen.

 

[BigBooper]

Alexa wouldn't turn on my lights today. I thought she was just being cold because of the way I'd been treating her lately. I'm glad to know the truth.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

I'm watching a movie on prime now.

 

[daveonezero]

Yeah put everything on AWS it will be fine.

doesn't matter why it failed. The point is you don't rely on someone else's computer with your life or business.

 

[ManaByte]

It was a AWS outage. Alexa couldn't turn my lights on or off for a few hours.

 

[funkygunther]

Tis the season. Same thing happened in November last year.

 

[Mistake]

I did a quick search and just found articles how Alexa is a homewrecker

 

[Scotty W]

 

[Dr.Morris79]

It was a AWS outage. Alexa couldn't turn my lights on or off for a few hours.

It's evolving. Dont trust her.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Yeah put everything on AWS it will be fine.

doesn't matter why it failed. The point is you don't rely on someone else's computer with your life or business.

Introducing life support unit with Alexa - whops...

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Introducing life support unit with Alexa - whops...

"Before we begin this operation today with Alexa, are you double jabbed + tripple boosted *sponsored by pfizer jingle* sir?"

"Erm, no?"

"Goodbye"

 

[PSlayer]

Yeah at my job, Frame.io and Shotgun were having problems yesterday related to an AWS issue. I told the artists to just wait a few hours because it was actually the second time this year so i kind of knew what was going on.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

It was a AWS outage. Alexa couldn't turn my lights on or off for a few hours.

Oh, that explains it. I had that same problem last night.

 

[Dural]

Yeah at my job, Frame.io and Shotgun were having problems yesterday related to an AWS issue. I told the artists to just wait a few hours because it was actually the second time this year so i kind of knew what was going on.

Yeah, we have some certs for our customers auto generated in the cloud and I guess it uses AWS as no customer got anything until 6am this morning. Anything shipped yesterday didn't get the certs generated because of the outage, I was hoping they'd be sitting in a queue and all be there today, but no luck.

 

[GeekyDad]

Wonder if this has anything to do with what happened to Amazon earlier in the week:

'The internet's on fire' as techs race to fix software flaw

Computer security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst software vulnerabilities discovered in years.

apnews.com

"... Apple, Amazon and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment."

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Wonder if this has anything to do with what happened to Amazon earlier in the week:

'The internet's on fire' as techs race to fix software flaw

Computer security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst software vulnerabilities discovered in years.

apnews.com

"... Apple, Amazon and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment."

log4shell is potentially a world ending vulnerability - Java is by far the most used language in enterprise development and the ability to run remote code is as bad as it gets.

 

[Lord Panda]

I spent most of the weekend applying mitigation steps across our inventory of servers. The moment we were made of aware of this critical CVE advisory, I dropped everything and got to work.