Massive Internet Outage Sweeping Northeast

Amazon Web Services is the cloud services arm of Amazon, and its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is used by everyone from Netflix to Reddit. When it goes down — or experiences any type of increased latency or errors — it causes major issues downstream, preventing content from loading on web pages and causing requests to fail.

Massive Internet Outage Sweeping Northeast

“We’ve identified the issue as high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1,” Amazon explains on its services tracking page, adding that the issue “is also impacting applications and services dependent on S3. We are actively working on remediating the issue.”

I had no idea an Amazon failure could cause all of this. This article is as of 2 hours ago.

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@ david hunegnaw‏ 2 hours ago
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Throw your stuff in the cloud, they said.

The cloud never goes down, they said.

a reply to: reldra

Russia...

a reply to: reldra

Sounds like informational engineering to me.

Step 1: cause major internet outage
Step 2: convince the masses to dump their data on the cloud
Step 3: NSA compromises the cloud
Step 4: NWO uses our own data against us

I say # the cloud and # Amazon

Hoping everybody stays safe and survives this terrible event.

a reply to: reldra

Fortunately I am not in New Jersey right now, I'm in Reno, so I can freely access all the important sites I typically view which are critical to my 5 times a day happiness.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Do you have a Braille keyboard?

a reply to: reldra

Theyll have to lock me up if my Fallout 4 game gets corrupted...

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

You're only happy 5 times a day?

a reply to: ColdWisdom

Why would being unable to access the cloud make people want to store on the cloud?

originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: reldra

Sounds like informational engineering to me.

Step 1: cause major internet outage
Step 2: convince the masses to dump their data on the cloud
Step 3: NSA compromises the cloud
Step 4: NWO uses our own data against us

I say # the cloud and # Amazon

Good call, I suspect you're right on the. Money.

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they just say that the cloud never goes down?

originally posted by: ColdWisdom
You're only happy 5 times a day?

With naps factored in? Yeah.

This is just a local event in the northeastern US?
That would seem to imply that "the net" lacks expected redundancy?

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Try sitting on your hand until it goes numb, or just try using your left hand.

originally posted by: Slichter
This is just a local event in the northeastern US?
That would seem to imply that "the net" lacks expected redundancy?

It is looking like a little more now.

BBC

US government services such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were also affected.To varying degrees it (AWS S3) serves around 150,000 sites and services around the world, mostly in the US.

Could this be why I can't get any sales totals on my Restaurant's point of sale system?

a reply to: reldra

Was a DDoS attack, the servers that run our back end were affected earlier today and I could not do anything at our property; rent/vacate units, take payments, update customer information, etc.

It has since abated and now we have full functionality restored, but for a little bit it was problematic.

It affected routers and Network Operation Centers across the east coast.

originally posted by: Urantia1111
a reply to: reldra

Theyll have to lock me up if my Fallout 4 game gets corrupted...

Bethesda Softworks twitter

If it is on this bethesda.net server, you may not be happy.

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We're currently investigating login issues with the BethesdaNet launcher. Thank you for your patience.

originally posted by: TomLawless
Could this be why I can't get any sales totals on my Restaurant's point of sale system?

Yep.

a reply to: Cobaltic1978

I'm not.