Amazon AWS … What Happened?

Amazon Web Services has issued a full apology and technical explanation after a 15-hour outage in its North Virginia data region took thousands of major platforms offline, exposing the internet’s heavy dependence on a handful of US cloud providers.

What Happened?

The incident began late on Sunday 19 October, when engineers at Amazon’s US-East-1 data region in North Virginia detected connection failures across multiple services. Starting at 11:48 pm Pacific time, critical systems linked to Amazon DynamoDB, a database service used by many of the world’s largest apps, began to fail.