An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries

[Joe Money]

Amazon is fucking up!!!

An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
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Amazon says it is working toward a solution
By Richard Lawler@rjcc Updated Dec 7, 2021, 2:23pm EST

Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers are causing slow loading or failures for significant chunks of the internet. Amazon’s widespread network of data centers powers many of the things you interact with online, including this website, so as we’ve seen in previous AWS outage incidents, any problem has massive rippling effects. People started noticing problems at around 10:45AM ET.

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There are reports of outages for Disney Plus streaming and games like PUBG, League of Legends, and Valorant. We’ve also noticed some problems accessing Amazon.com and other Amazon products like the Alexa AI assistant, Kindle ebooks, Amazon Music, Chime, or Ring security cameras. The DownDetector list of services with spikes in their outage reports runs off nearly any recognizable name: Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, both Cash App and Venmo, and the list goes on.

The most important app impacted by the outage might be the ones that Amazon employees use. CNBC points out Reddit posts from Amazon Flex, warehouse, and delivery workers who say the apps that keep track of packages, tell them where to go, and generally keep your items on time went down too.

There are reports from network admins everywhere about errors connecting to Amazon’s instances and the AWS Management Console that controls their access to the servers. Amazon’s official status page has been updated with messages confirming the outage.

8:49 AM PST We are experiencing elevated error rates for EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1 region. We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery.
We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery. This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1. Customers may be able to access region-specific consoles going to https://console.aws.amazon.com/?tag=vp314-20. So, to access the US-WEST-2 console, try https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/

It appears that the problems are focused on the US-EAST-1 AWS region hosted in Virginia, so users elsewhere may not see as many issues, and even if you’re affected, it could manifest as slightly slower loading while the network reroutes your requests somewhere else. Contacted for comment, Amazon pointed to the updates on its status page, which indicate the company is “actively working towards recovery.”

An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries

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[a1rimrocka]

My company's software sits on AWS.. now having to explain to a customer (tenant in US-East) during a demo why our app is performing like shit

 

[Aww Skeet Skeet!]

My company's software sits on AWS.. now having to explain to a customer (tenant in US-East) during a demo why our app is performing like shit

Same...but internal folks.

 

[Joe Money]

My company's software sits on AWS.. now having to explain to a customer (tenant in US-East) during a demo why our app is performing like shit

Did the outage start during your demo?

 

[a1rimrocka]

Did the outage start during your demo?

I don't think so... I actually didn't see news about the outage until I checked my phone later in the call.

Got off the call and realized I couldn't open any of my Ring cameras and Netflix

 

[Camille]

Ok so this is why my Ring camera isn't working. Thanks.

 

[huge_brass_balls]

Did the outage start during your demo?

I'm laughing because I've had stuff like that happen to me... IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEMO!!!!
And I got evicerated by the potential customers...

 

[blackbull1970]

How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All

By Isabella Steger +Get Alerts
December 7, 2021, 8:55 PM PST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...parks-anger-as-fridges-stop-people-locked-out

The outage at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes.

The disruption, which began at about 10 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, upended package deliveries, took down major streaming services, and prevented people from getting into Walt Disney Co.’s parks.

Affected Amazon services included the voice assistant Alexa and Ring smart-doorbell unit. Irate device users tweeted their frustrations to Ring’s official account, with many complaining that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out on Twitter that there was a general Amazon Web Services outage. Multiple Ring users even said they weren’t able to get into their homes without access to the phone app, which was down.

The outage prompted people to reflect on the pitfalls of having a “smart” home that’s overly dependent on not only the internet, but one company in particular -- while those with “dumb” homes gloated that their fridges and light switches were working just fine.

Several of the affected AWS operations were on the East Coast. AWS said about nine hours later that it had resolved the network device issues that led to the outage.

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[playahaitian]

Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon

The Pentagon’s controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.

www.technologyreview.com

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[playahaitian]

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again over a cloud computing contract

When the National Security Agency recently awarded Amazon a multi-billion-dollar cloud computing contract, Microsoft protested. With how the award is likely to play out, we turned to attorney Hamish Hume.

federalnewsnetwork.com

 

[xfactor]

Bezos got people looking like fools out here. Corporations are going to learn to stop going with these conglomerates because when something goes down, they can literally lose everything.

 

[gene cisco]

Ok so this is why my Ring camera isn't working. Thanks.

I got to go apologize to the ol' lady because I blamed her. Also, all our Amazon packages were delayed. Just got one about 5:30-6 am instead of yesterday and others still out there.

 

[Camille]

I got to go apologize to the ol' lady because I blamed her. Also, all our Amazon packages were delayed. Just got one about 5:30-6 am instead of yesterday and others still out there.

I had a message my Wi-Fi signal was weak. I turned off the Wi-Fi, I got a message my carrier signal was weak and to try Wi-Fi. I was rebooting my router and I couldn't sign in on my pc. Reset the doorbell etc, then I log into BGOL and see this thread. SMH.