Downdetector spiking hard overnight (www.the-independent.com)
from butterycroissant@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 07:36
https://lemmy.world/post/37598989

Lots of big names down at once (a whole page), what’s happening?

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cabbage@piefed.social on 20 Oct 07:45 next collapse

Seems like a fair bet that Amazon Web Services is having some problems?

I really appreciate that the commercial internet runs on like three service providers. Would love to see it crash and burn.

troed@fedia.io on 20 Oct 08:08 collapse

Meredith just tooted that Signal is down due to an AWS outage.

VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 15:39 next collapse

Signal uses AWS, fuck ! That’s deceiving, Where is security if it runs on Besos hardware ?

MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works on 20 Oct 15:49 collapse

Unless they broke encryption as we know it, it’s fine. Ethically/morally who knows, is it more important to have a reliable e2ee messaging tool constantly? Probably

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 08:22 collapse

Travel back in time 20 years and that sentence makes you sound like a crazy person.

skisnow@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 08:30 collapse

Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say

lena@gregtech.eu on 20 Oct 19:47 collapse

I sometimes catch myself saying programmer-nerdy stuff past me would be incredibly confused about

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 10:24 next collapse

Me: *watching random thing error out*

Me: *restarting everything, feeling annoyed*

Me: Rats. Well. I guess I’ll see what Lemmy’s got on

Me: Ooohhhhhh

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 16:07 collapse

I feel this in my midnight cursing and investigation.

I gotta get HAss going so I can still use my lights when the clowd breaks.

BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 09:36 next collapse

health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I suspect the big problem is that IAM is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide (even outside of AWS’ us-east-1 location) which rely on IAM in us-east-1 to also fail. I’m having trouble even logging into the AWS console to check on my European servers.

Edit: IAM is the main authentication method. So AWS may still be up and running fine in other locations around the world; but if you can’t connect to them because AWS’ internal authentication is all fucked up…

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 16:08 collapse

Butbutbut AWS reliability and many regions and zones means this can’t happen! ;-)

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 16:44 next collapse

US government testing their ability to shut down the internet

abfarid@startrek.website on 20 Oct 19:23 collapse

Wtf is “whatnot”? How is it amongst such well-known stuff (except Instructure, too, I guess)?

[deleted] on 20 Oct 20:26 next collapse

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Quexotic@infosec.pub on 20 Oct 20:26 collapse

With so many eggs being in one basket it really makes me wonder when AWS goes down if it isn’t actually something that’s an attack when they say something like “oh it’s just DNS” because why would they admit it?

tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net on 20 Oct 23:28 collapse

Because it was just DNS. That’s how the issue presented and that’s what it was.