Failure to Amazon Web Services – one mistake and "half of the Internet" does not work

Most of the web sites keeps your files in the cloud Amazon Web Services. that was enough, that a failure in the network (and not only) I make the Internet for some time much less functional.

Trouble began on Monday, and last night (in our time) everything looked really serious is already. Amazon Web Services servers in one of the centers simply refused to obey, and with numerous web sites and services to them.

In failing to connect with a long time iFixit, Imgur, Quora и Giphy, download programs GitHuba or take advantage of Slack and Trello. Пользователи устройств Razer не смогли их настроить, because the server did not respond. it, of course, Only a small percentage of service, which were out of reach.

Amazon for several hours struggling with the problem, but in the end he managed to restore the server, and users breathed a sigh of relief. This is another (after Cloudbleed), example, that centralization, although it has its advantages, quite a dangerous thing. Error one subject is the problem, hundreds of, thousand, millions…

A source: The Verge, Amazon