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2021-12-08 Cyber

All of Amazon Web Services go down - taking huge part of the internet with it: Alexa, Ring, Disney+, Tinder and Venmo all crash in Cloud server outage

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 While this was going on, my own Alexa devices gave me different bogus excuses for their failure to perform. Had I not known better, I would have wasted a lot of time track the excuses down. Instead I Googled "Alexa network malfunction" and got this story. I was still able to turn most of my devices off & on using the Android app provided by the manufacturer of the devices. The app bypasses Alexa but can coordinate with it.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-08 00:04|| 2021-12-08 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder what the outage did to the Federal AWS cloud?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-08 07:11|| 2021-12-08 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 You would hope that they're part of a different 'cloud' Skid, but you never know how they actually set things up.

No matter how the contract reads.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-08 08:52|| 2021-12-08 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 A lot of competition in providing cloud capacity and service these days. Amazon gets a huge part of its revenue from this and profit margin is 80% or more.

CISCO and ORACLE and others are ramping up cloud service.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-08 09:00|| 2021-12-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Not just Disney+ -- Disney World admissions wasn't working, either. Considering the degree of integration they have, that may have also meant their hotels couldn't process new guests, restaurant charges and the pre-paid meal plan wasn't working, and charge-to-room was down as well.

I *hope* there are some tough questions being asked about the cloud strategy at Disney. They've been focused on cost-cutting, but this has to have hurt.

The only thing I saw was a slicer I use for 3D printing wouldn't run locally, because it couldn't validate my account. At least the vendor for that has already planned an "offline" mode that isn't dependent on the cloud.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-08 09:17|| 2021-12-08 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Crash, what crash?
Didn't notice.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-12-08 09:57|| 2021-12-08 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Yes. I had a dr's appointment yesterday morning that certainly would have been derailed if they were on AWS. It wasn't so I guess they weren't.

Works for me.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 10:00|| 2021-12-08 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8

How about we setup a NO E-Use for a just 8 hours for 1 day each year. Where are all Smart Phone Internet/SMS access for 16 years old and below shut off?

Then we can watch this E-Generation go bananas or actually look at the world around them.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-08 10:45|| 2021-12-08 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Similar experience but not really. s2manga.com keeps crashing.

Posted by Wren 2021-12-08 11:38|| 2021-12-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 I heard on the news that Amazon has the CIA contract as well, which should have briefly made things interesting over in Langley.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-08 11:49|| 2021-12-08 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 which should have briefly made things interesting over in Langley.

For a short while they would have to have made guesses on no information instead of bad information. Or have lacked the information they normally ignored that didn't fit the guesses they already agreed on in their meetings.

Why have IT at all?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 12:01|| 2021-12-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#12 I would hope they have some backup process in place. Paper charts or something of that sort. You would be stupid to rely solely on the cloud no matter what the sales rep promises.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-12-08 12:01|| 2021-12-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#13 A few years back, VA had a three-day outage due to a botched data center switch over. In those three days they accumulated a six-month backlog of written stuff that needed keyed in. It happens fast.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 12:04|| 2021-12-08 12:04|| Front Page Top

#14 I watched a low budget movie. I guess it has become a but of a cult hit since the last I watched it. They used some of their new money and fame to go back and re-touch a couple scenes, clean up the credits.

Point is, the streamer can and will edit movie content at their pleasure. How long before Major League gets the treatment?

If you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy.

On the other side, every one of your devices sends data to advertisers - why would one of these voice activated things be any different? And who isn't to say that certain jingles or phrases in commercials doesn't activate them?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-08 18:15|| 2021-12-08 18:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Day is coming where bots will look for stuff that hasn't been "approved edited" and edit or delete it. You need offline backups that are never exposed to the internet.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 20:16|| 2021-12-08 20:16|| Front Page Top

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