Why Was the Internet Was Broken?

Amazon Web Services and Domain Name Services. AWS outage today: list of websites hit, US-EAST-1, Amazon down - Fast Company

Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. This is a lesson that we refuse to learn.

But though the problem seemed to be affecting only the endpoint located in one region of the United States, any website, app, or service that ran data through that endpoint could be affected by its outage—no matter where in the world the end-user was located.

And yes, AWS is capable of failover from one regional data center to another, but you don't get that for free. You have to build your application to take advantage of that, and not build in dependencies on a specific regional center. Or as I've said many times, no one does proper systems design anymore.

If you want the nerd-level explanation of how this happened, I have two videos linked below. One from Dave's Garage, and on from Some Ordinary Gamers.

• Amazon
• Amazon Alexa
• Amazon Prime Video
• Apple Music
• AT&T
• Chime
• Delta Air Lines
• Epic Games Store
• Fortnite
• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Lyft
• Max
• McDonalds app
• Reddit
• Ring
• Robinhood
• Roblox
• Roku
• Playstation Network
• Signal
• Snapchat
• Spectrum
• Starbucks
• Steam
• Ubisoft Connect
• Venmo
• Xbox Network
• Xfinity by Comcast
• Zoom

Dave is a tech nerd from the old school. He worked at Microsoft for a long time. I like it. Why the Web was Down Today - Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

Mutahar at Some Ordinary Gamers is less corporate than Dave. (That is to say, Not Safe For Work) Why Did Half The Internet Die Today...