Major Websites down due to cloud issue

[Jono8]

Have to admit, that's very impressive!

Good job too. Imagine the money/sales lost for even a small amount of downtime on a behemoth retailer like Amazon.

 

[GravyMonster]

May I be the first in this thread to blame COVID and the Russians.

Clearly the networks weren't ready for all the new 5G connections and got DDOS'd.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

May I be the first in this thread to blame COVID and the Russians.

You forgot Brexit.

 

[Freefaller]

Just makes you realise how reliant we are on these services if it can break so much of the internet!

 

[C.R.A.Z.Y]

Seems to be fixed now

 

[dlockers]

Odds that someone has edited the BGP routing tables to send everything via Russia?

 

[bjorkiii]

Im blaming Dowie, his drivel could have caused this outage.

 

[Participant]

At least it doesn't happen every week like with whoever OcUK are using.

*ducks*

 

[Jono8]

Im blaming Dowie, his drivel could have caused this outage.

 

[LiE]

Yep Fastly reporting a fix has been applied:

Monitoring - The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
Jun 8, 10:57 UTC

They must have found the power cable that was pulled out that powers the internet.

 

[Hades]

unconfirmed reports that a cleaner pulled out the wrong plug so they could plug their hoover in.

This reminds me of when I worked in the IT department for one of the banks. Back in the day (1980's/90's) we had IBM 4702's installed in branches as a local server with the terminals networked to it on Token Ring. We had to investigate why one branches overnight prints never worked. The 4702 logs seemed to indicate a reboot at the same time every evening, right when the printing would have happened.

It turned out the cleaner used that power plug every night to vaccume the floor

 

[Hades]

Has anyone blamed the Tories yet?

 

[labbby]

This reminds me of when I worked in the IT department for one of the banks. Back in the day (1980's/90's) we had IBM 4702's installed in branches as a local server with the terminals networked to it on Token Ring. We had to investigate why one branches overnight prints never worked. The 4702 logs seemed to indicate a reboot at the same time every evening, right when the printing would have happened.

It turned out the cleaner used that power plug every night to vaccume the floor

 

[Semple]

Have to admit, that's very impressive!

When you consider the money that Amazon/AWS are making, or more to the fact - losing because of service disruptions, it's more good business sense.

 

[Freefaller]

Has anyone blamed the Tories yet?

No but they'll get the credit for fixing it probably

 

[On Holiday]

Places like Amazon haven't really "lost revenue" here. Anybody that wanted to buy something will just do so when the site comes back up again.
Realistically if you went to Amazon to buy something and found it was offline, who else are you going to do go to?
Products for sale on Amazon are almost always cheaper elsewhere but the vast majority of Amazon shoppers buy from them for convenience and delivery times.

 

[Relentless81]

I wonder if this why GIFs aren't working in Teams!

 

[BowdonUK]

These cloud data storages need to be split across more internet locations to prevent this stuff happening more in the future.

This is showing malicious people what they need to do in future to cause havoc.

 

[413x]

Places like Amazon haven't really "lost revenue" here. Anybody that wanted to buy something will just do so when the site comes back up again.
Realistically if you went to Amazon to buy something and found it was offline, who else are you going to do go to?
Products for sale on Amazon are almost always cheaper elsewhere but the vast majority of Amazon shoppers buy from them for convenience and delivery times.

I'd say about 50 percent of the time.
Often give stuff cheaper elsewhere

 

[dlockers]

Has anyone blamed the Tories yet?

Probably an old person/retiree unplugging the wrong cable trying to get the BetaMax going again.