My CGM wouldn’t send my numbers, after my treatment, to the Doc.
I’m assuming it’s part of this.
I did make an order from Amazon this morning. Nothing has notified me of any problem.
My client’s website uses a third party script to get search results and show lists of products by category. That works on AWS so their site is having outages related to that. But not every connection is down…I can see the category pages and search results just fine. My clients are seeing them intermittently from their location 20 miles away.
Thankfully their actual product pages aren’t running on this third party service so if someone comes to a product page from Google or somewhere else with a direct link, they can reliably access the products.
I can’t post on Reddit.
You would think they would have re-examined that after the CloudFlare fiasco a few years ago. Where are the single points of failure that will crash everything?
We’re in AWS Europe as well, so minimally affected (really not at all directly, but some of our partners & customers use US-based services, which were affected).
From what I understand, the outage was mostly in the us-east-1 data center: AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 | Hacker News
If a company is spread across more than one AWS availability zone, they should be able to failover to another one. Redundancy is something you plan and pay for, not something that any single cloud or data center would be able to provide. And of course, that depends on the cloud provider itself not having internal services that then route to a single point of failure, like @Saint_Cad and @LSLGuy said…
The general servers and production websites are working at my work, but some of the things that feed into them are not. It isn’t having a large impact yet, because some of those things can be run later, or we have built in exceptions to continue the process, but the longer it goes on, the more these invisible (to our users) failures will cause disruption.
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I’ve had issues with Vanguard (a half hour ago), Amazon (in the morning—haven’t checked it since), and Reddit (won’t let me reply 95% of the time — I managed to get one reply in a few minutes ago, and now keep getting comment cannot be posted errors.)
Indeed, I was just able to modify one of my Amazon subscriptions using their iPhone app with no issues.
I was going to say I wasn’t really affected by the outage, but now I’m having trouble getting to a website I frequently use for work, and I suspect the outage may have something to do with that.
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I just tried to look up something on IMDb (which is owned by Amazon), and got a cheeky (but legitimate) error message. A few minutes later, the same search gave the correct results.
Our issue seems to be that the problem is intermittent. So I was able to work for 20 minutes but now the site I need is down for who knows how long.
I also think it’s amusing how much AWS has changed attitudes regarding outages…
At my first real job out of college (before AWS was common), I was paid $15/hr to set up, administer, and monitor a mix of bare-metal and dedicated virtual servers spread across three geographic locations, all synced to each other with a bunch of failover systems. I was responsible for every part of that stack on all the machines, from Linux updates to redis clusters to monit agents to Postgres dupes, along with the DNS that tied them all together. There were multiple text and phone alerts that would go directly to my phone any time day or night. The outage monitoring services had their own redundant outage monitoring. If anything broke, it was my responsibility to drop whatever I was doing and run into the office to fix it. We ran simulated failover drills to simulate partial and complete outages of one or more machines. This was for a small 20-employee mom & pop solar business.
Fast forward a couple decades, and nowadays I’m paid more, but my job is basically limited to pushing a button to deploy code changes. After that it’s all in someone else’s cloud (or a few someone elses). If something goes down, oh well, it’s like a power outage… the whole team just goes to grab a coffee, puts on some music, puts their legs up, and waits for the clouds to come back up. This was at a Fortune 500.
I suspect for many teams/orgs, the true power of AWS is not its rock-solid reliability, but its ability to turn your major headache into Somebody Else’s Problem™.
Of course the theory is that AWS or equivalent competitor cloud is itself so heavily redundant and so well managed that minor internal outages occur all the time without anyone outside their building ever being the wiser. It’s so good it can’t publicly fail.
In theory.
Couldn’t get into Wordle last night 
My classes use two different textbooks, from two different publishers, each with its own online homework system. One of the systems was really slow to log in, but once you were in, it was working normally. The other was painfully slow (like, 10 minutes to load a page) at everything.
I’m not sure if the first one was due to the Amazon issue, since the login system there appears to be part of the Google ecosystem. But the second one definitely was.
Tried to use the credit bureaus’ opt-out website an hour ago. It was up & running but errored out when I clicked [save] on my filled out form.
Due to AWS? Can’t be sure, but seems likely.
I was on Amazon earlier today and tried to look at the status of an order I’d placed. The first time I clicked on the order, I got an error page. I went back in my browser and clicked again, and it worked.
…That’s the only way this affected me today.
All our courses for social workers are in Canvas. As of 4:15pm, Canvas was still down.
I was planning to go to a nice new restaurant, but they are “closed today; due to a nationwide network outage, leaving us unable to operate.”
Apparently Facebook Marketplace uses Amazon web servers and has been having issues for me all day. It keeps asking me to verify who I am by sending a code to my phone number that never arrives.
I’ve been selling everything in my home in preparation for my overseas move and this has been quite disruptive.
I noticed nothing, this is the first I’ve heard of it.