Amazon internally blames ‘as yet unknown source’ for massive outage: Insider
Several Amazon.com Inc. The services were closed to thousands of users in the United States on 7 December.
Meanwhile, Amazon internally blames an ‘as yet unknown source’ for the massive AWS outage, an insider says, adding an internal AWS analysis points to traffic congestion across multiple network devices in the Northern Virginia region. indicates.
Amazon said the outage was likely due to issues related to the Application Programming Interface (API), a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
“We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EST-1 region,” Amazon said in a report on its Services Health Dashboard, adding that it has identified the cause and is working to resolve the issue. was working.
downdetector Shows over 24,000 instances of people reporting problems with Amazon. It tracks outages on its platform by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors.
An outage can affect a significant number of users.
Other services including Amazon’s Ring security cameras, mobile banking app Chime and robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot were also facing problems, according to their social media pages.
Ring said it is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. “A Major Amazon Web Services [AWS] The outage is currently affecting our iRobot Home app,” iRobot said on its website.
In June, including websites reddit, Amazon, CNN, paypal, spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network And this new York Times US-based content delivery network provider Fastly Inc., a minor competitor of AWS, was affected by widespread hours-long disruptions.
In July, Amazon experienced a disruption to its online store service, which lasted nearly two hours and affected more than 38,000 users.
According to a website that reviews web tools, users have experienced 27 outages on Amazon in the past 12 months tool tester,
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