“We saw that when Facebook became the instrument of a massive disinformation campaign, we just saw that today with the Amazon failure.” Securities and Exchange Commission database online. “When we put everything in one place, be it Amazon’s cloud or Facebook’s monolith, we’re violating that fundamental principle,” said Malamud, who developed the internet’s first radio station and later put a vital U.S. To technologist and public data access activist Carl Malamud, the AWS outage highlights how much Big Tech has warped the internet, which was originally designed as a distributed and decentralized network intended to survive mass disasters such as nuclear attack. It holds roughly a third of the $152 billion market for cloud services, according to a report by Synergy Research - a larger share than its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, combined. The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon. It took some affected companies hours more to thoroughly check their systems and restart their own services.Īmazon Web Services was formerly run by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who succeeded founder Jeff Bezos in July. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues, the company said in a post on the AWS status page that it had “mitigated” the underlying problem responsible for the outage, which it did not describe. In fact, the company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an AWS dashboard and a brief statement delivered via spokesperson Richard Rocha that acknowledged the outage had affected Amazon’s own warehouse and delivery operation but said the company was “working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” That included The Associated Press, whose publishing system was inoperable for much of the day, greatly limiting its ability to publish its news report.Īmazon has still said nothing about what, exactly, went wrong. The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services to Amazon’s own massive e-commerce operation. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S.
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