AWS is a cloud computing platform supplied by Amazon that permits corporations to hire computing energy, storage, and different IT assets over the web, as an alternative of sustaining their very own servers and information centres.
Primarily, AWS offers the spine for numerous web sites, purposes, and digital companies.
The outage has disrupted quite a few on-line companies, together with banking programs and Ring doorbells, as reported by customers and monitoring websites reminiscent of Downdetector.
Clients have reported outages at a number of UK banks together with Lloyds, Halifax, and Financial institution of Scotland – with 6,925 reviews at Lloyds at 9.31am.
Earlier on Monday, AWS reported that it has “recognized a possible root trigger” for the widespread outage affecting its companies.
In accordance with the corporate, “based mostly on our investigation, the difficulty seems to be associated to DNS decision of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1.”
DNS decision is the method that permits corporations to connect with AWS servers.
AWS stated it’s engaged on “a number of parallel paths to speed up restoration.”
Full checklist of companies impacted by AWS disruption
Authorities and public companies
Infrastructure and cloud companies
AWS companies together with EC2, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and VPC Lattice
