Lots of big names down at once (a whole page), what’s happening?
Seems like a fair bet that Amazon Web Services is having some problems?
I really appreciate that the commercial internet runs on like three service providers. Would love to see it crash and burn.
Meredith just tooted that Signal is down due to an AWS outage.
Travel back in time 20 years and that sentence makes you sound like a crazy person.
Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say
Signal uses AWS, fuck ! That’s deceiving, Where is security if it runs on Besos hardware ?
Unless they broke encryption as we know it, it’s fine. Ethically/morally who knows, is it more important to have a reliable e2ee messaging tool constantly? Probably
They didn’t have a failover setup??
The biggest ad Matrix/Element has ever gotten.
Toot toot! I still think it’s hilarious that this what they are called on mastodon. Great choice
It was much better with rack space leading the way. We never had outages. Ever.
Me: *watching random thing error out*
Me: *restarting everything, feeling annoyed*
Me: Rats. Well. I guess I’ll see what Lemmy’s got on
Me: Ooohhhhhh
I feel this in my midnight cursing and investigation.
I gotta get HAss going so I can still use my lights when the clowd breaks.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
I suspect the big problem is that IAM is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide (even outside of AWS’ us-east-1 location) which rely on IAM in us-east-1 to also fail. I’m having trouble even logging into the AWS console to check on my European servers.
Edit: IAM is the main authentication method. So AWS may still be up and running fine in other locations around the world; but if you can’t connect to them because AWS’ internal authentication is all fucked up…
Butbutbut AWS reliability and many regions and zones means this can’t happen! ;-)
US government testing their ability to shut down the internet
overnight
Ah, you mean just now. It’s not night everywhere!
Assimilate to the one true time zone. Resistance is futile.
Oh you mean UTC?
Ach. Fine.
Outage is ending.
Oct 20 2:27 AM PDT We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information.
I’ve just been on Reddit and it’s having some serious issues right now.
Reddit has had issues for years, that’s why so many of us are here.
Oh, you meant the aws thing.
Using the old interface seems to yield better results there. It appears to be their newer API model that’s suffering.
Is Signal down for anyone else?
Reddit seems to be having issues as well. hah
Yup, Signal is down. The one centralized service I’m still rooting for I guess. Disappointed they’re running on AWS.
Is Signal down for anyone else?
Yes: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/2885438/-/comment/12751404
Yeah same no signal here on signal.
Yup, it’s maybe working again now. At least I got a message through just then.
I got the test messages I exchanged with a friend earlier, but new messages are still stuck
Yea. It‘s affected, too.
Wtf is “whatnot”? How is it amongst such well-known stuff (except Instructure, too, I guess)?
With so many eggs being in one basket it really makes me wonder when AWS goes down if it isn’t actually something that’s an attack when they say something like “oh it’s just DNS” because why would they admit it?
I assumed Cloudflare tbh
Oh
sad to see my favorite game clash royale down
Damn! I was getting pissed at my isp because so much is loading slowly.
I guess this explains the slow loading times for various things.
I was about to restart my whole network while watching something on Stremio. One look at Lemmy was enough to turn that off and pick up a book. Funny how books never buffer 😂
someone likely borked IAM.
How long ago did you take the screenshot? Because I am signed in to two of those services right now and they are working 100% fine.
about 10 mins ago
Could it be that web services are divided into regions
A lot of the affected services seem to be partially functional right now. It looks like the AWS network that went offline is one managing real-time analytics data, mostly.
Ahhhhhhh, I see. That makes sense!
Could be that your region relies on different servers, could be that only the sign-in is down.
Perplexity is down as well.
