{"id":377514,"date":"2020-11-26T07:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=377514"},"modified":"2020-11-26T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T05:20:54","slug":"amazon-suffers-major-cloud-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/377514-amazon-suffers-major-cloud-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon suffers major cloud outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud-computing division suffered an\u00a0outage<\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday that affected several customers, including Roku Inc. and Adobe Inc.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u00a0Web<\/span>\u00a0Services\u2019s\u00a0status page\u00a0noted\u00a0that its Kinesis data streaming service was \u201ccurrently impaired\u201d in the company\u2019s U.S. East 1 region. The outages were also making it harder to post updates to a closely watched status page, the company said.<\/p>\n

The failure affected the ability of customers to use roughly two dozen services, hitting streaming hardware maker\u00a0Roku, software seller\u00a0Adobe\u00a0and digital photo service\u00a0Flickr.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that\u2019s impacted some other AWS services,\u201d a company spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. \u201cWe are working toward resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

AWS is the largest provider of rented computing power and software services, and its data centers serve as the invisible foundation of much of the internet. That gives failures in its services an immediate visibility that rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google sometimes don\u2019t face.<\/p>\n

AWS is a collection of more than 175 software services, from data storage to a range of databases and machine-learning software. Customers often use more than one, linking them together in ways that can cause a failure in one system to cascade across multiple programs.<\/p>\n

The Seattle-based company operates those services from 24 regions, or clusters of data centers, geographic redundancy designed to station computing power close to customers while limiting the chance that a failure in any single region will result in permanent loss of data. U.S. East-1, which relies on data centers clustered in northern Virginia, is among AWS\u2019s most important regions,\u00a0analysts say<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Kinesis Data Streams, the service at the root of Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0outage<\/span>, captures and performs analytics on data, including social media feeds, dumps of public records and internal application usage logs, which can be then be fed into a variety of other software programs.<\/p>\n

Jaspreet Singh, chief executive officer of Druva Inc., a data backup and disaster recovery software maker that uses AWS services, said his engineers first noticed the\u00a0outage<\/span>\u00a0early Wednesday morning when the flow of notifications from an AWS data monitoring service were disrupted.<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0outage<\/span>\u00a0didn\u2019t completely sever access to a critical AWS service, it seemed to touch more products than previous outages, Singh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically what tends to happen is one service goes down\u201d for a half hour or so, he said. \u201cThis is a different kind of issue. It\u2019s bigger. Things are failing internally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now read: What\u2019s Next \u2013 In conversation with Willie Jansen van Rensburg<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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