AWS Outage Affects Multiple Internet Services
AWS Outage Affects Multiple Internet Services
An outage within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup is affecting a number of internet services, including our website. The AWS Health Dashboard notes problems of degradation on multiple services in the US-EAST-1 region that started at around 3PM ET. It’s almost impossible to count the number of sites and services that rely on AWS, or across which regions or specific services, so how these issues might affect your internet depends on a lot of things.
Impact on Internet Services
The outage has affected a number of internet services, including Burger King’s mobile app, McDonald’s, Delta Airlines, and Taco Bell app. IT workers on Reddit and Hacker News report they can’t access consoles to try to troubleshoot the issues they’re having. For The Verge, the problems mean that the front page of this site isn’t updating automatically, and while we have a workaround for that, some other parts of the site may fail to update for the time being.
Amazon’s Response
The most recent updates from Amazon include one posted at 4:14PM ET, that says, “We are continuing to work to resolve the error rates invoking Lambda functions. We’re also observing elevated errors obtaining temporary credentials from the AWS Security Token Service, and are working in parallel to resolve these errors.” The next update, from 4:38PM ET, says, “We are beginning to see an improvement in the Lambda function error rates. We are continuing to work towards full recovery.”
In conclusion, the AWS outage has affected multiple internet services, including Burger King’s mobile app, McDonald’s, Delta Airlines, and Taco Bell app. Amazon is working to resolve the issue, and updates are being posted on the AWS Health Dashboard. It’s unclear how long the outage will last, but it’s important to note that the impact on internet services may vary depending on a number of factors.