Sign in / up

back to article AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb in MEGA data collapse

Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have suffered a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing some sites down with it in the process. The service disruption hit AWS customers including Netflix, Tinder and IMDb, as well as Amazon's Instant Video and Books websites. The outage may also explain Airbnb's current …

COMMENTS

Post your comment
House rules Send corrections
Add to 'My topics' unstar *

Page:

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    IMDB is an Amazon property,not a customer.

    If this knocked Netflix offline for long it must have been big given how aggressively they build around failure.

    4 0 Reply
  2. elDog

    Good thing Bezos is not an avatar living in Amazonia!

    Pretty soon we'll get to the place that real computers and real humans are no longer necessary for the proper functioning of this planet. Given this minor bpli we mya b ether no...

    11 1 Reply
    1. adnim
      Reply Icon
      Facepalm

      Re: Good thing Bezos is not an avatar living in Amazonia!

      "Pretty soon we'll get to the place that real computers and real humans are no longer necessary for the proper functioning of this planet."

      They never have been, the planet has functioned perfectly for around 4.5 billion years. The planet did shoot itself in the foot though... It allowed humans to evolve.

      4 0 Reply
      1. DLSmith
        Reply Icon

        Re: Good thing Bezos is not an avatar living in Amazonia!

        Not to worry, before long we will have killed ourselves off, and after a few millenia, few signs we existed will be around.

        2 0 Reply
  3. big_D Silver badge

    Aha

    that would explain why I couldn't finish watching Lawrence of Arabia earlier on...

    1 1 Reply
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Aha

      I suggest moving to a more resilient and robust service that involves those pesky torrents...

      I applaud at your taste in films.

      12 1 Reply
      1. Anonymous Coward
        Reply Icon
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Aha

        Anyone know if Amazon's version of Netflix was impacted? Or do they give their own stuff higher priority?

        2 0 Reply
        1. big_D Silver badge
          Reply Icon

          Re: Aha

          I don't have Netflix, I just have Prime Instant Video - I only have that, because I was already a Prime subscriber...

          1 1 Reply
      2. earl grey
        Reply Icon
        Pint

        Re: Aha

        recall seeing it in the cinema long ago. still have the LP of the soundtrack. well done all around.

        0 0 Reply
    2. Crazy Operations Guy
      Reply Icon

      Re: Aha

      I couldn't finish it either, but that probably has more to do wit the fact that the movie is just so bloody long... 3 hours and 45 minutes, that borders on torture right there.

      1 3 Reply
      1. big_D Silver badge
        Reply Icon

        Re: Aha @Crazy Ops Guy

        But you have the lovely Intermission in the middle. You just turn up the music, then you can go to the loo and make yourself some caffeine based sustenance to keep you going.

        It is a great film and the rolling dunes really need a large screen to be appreciated.

        1 0 Reply
      2. Frumious Bandersnatch
        Reply Icon

        Re: Aha

        [Lawrence of Arabia] is just so bloody long

        And wide, too. A 2.20:1 aspect ratio in its original 70mm form, to be exact. A bitch to watch on a 1.33 ratio HD screen, sans doute.

        1 1 Reply
        1. Simon Harris
          Reply Icon

          Re: Aha

          Probably not so much of a bitch to watch on most people's 1.777:1 ratio HD screens.

          1 1 Reply
        2. Chris Holford
          Reply Icon

          Re: Aha

          That's why the cinema is the best place to watch good movies.

          3 0 Reply
          1. Anonymous Coward
            Reply Icon
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Aha

            Anything good on at the cinema?

            0 0 Reply
            1. introdium
              Reply Icon

              Re: Aha

              The Gift..is good.... kinda thriller/drama would that be a 'driller' ??

              0 0 Reply
  4. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Perhaps Amazon

    dialled up the wrong sort of Clouds?

    If this is not a wakeup call to those who seem to want to tell us all that 'the Cloud' is the answer to Life, the Univers and Everything. But they seem to forget about the Vogon's and their Galactic Highway.

    27 0 Reply
    1. Franco
      Reply Icon

      Re: Perhaps Amazon

      Clearly the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's Marketing Department is doing a better job than the tech bods

      6 0 Reply
      1. Synonymous Howard
        Reply Icon

        Re: Perhaps Amazon

        Share and Enjoy!

        5 0 Reply
        1. nsld
          Reply Icon

          Re: Perhaps Amazon

          Its probably eddies in the space time continuum, just chuck up a SEP field and be done with it.

          1 0 Reply
          1. Anonymous Coward
            Reply Icon
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Perhaps Amazon

            LIGO was just upgraded to pick up just such an indicator of a massive cosmic event so we should know soon.

            0 0 Reply
        2. Crazy Operations Guy
          Reply Icon

          Re: Perhaps Amazon

          Go stick your head in a pig!

          2 0 Reply
          1. monty75
            Reply Icon

            Re: Perhaps Amazon

            *insert David Cameron joke here*

            4 1 Reply
    2. TheVogon
      Reply Icon

      Re: Perhaps Amazon

      You are obviously not aware that we were simply acting on behalf of a consortium of psychiatrists and the Imperial Galactic Government in order to prevent the discovery of the Ultimate Question...

      0 0 Reply
  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    For goodness sake Jeff...

    Its one thing being bald, but you're just taking the slash mate!

    0 0 Reply
  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

    Discuss.

    19 0 Reply
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

      It fits the first criterion for disaster recovery and issue management:

      - Can you blame someone else (and wait for them to fix the issue)?

      - Yes -> Problem solved.

      That's why cloud is and will be highly successful.

      21 0 Reply
    2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
      Reply Icon

      Re: The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

      I need more statistics.

      1 0 Reply
    3. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

      Netflix moved to AWS a few years ago. Look at their subscriber numbers and revenue over the past few years. Discuss.

      0 0 Reply
    4. Dadmin
      Reply Icon

      Re: The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

      This seems like a GREAT IDEA! Let me just leverage this big company that seems to be a solid bunch of chaps to hold all my important data, because they said they could for next to nothing and they should be online forever! Super!

      *puts all data into cloud

      Good stuff!

      *outage

      I'm a stupid dickhead who reads CIO Magazine, and now all my data is missing. :(

      2 0 Reply
      1. Dwarf
        Reply Icon

        Re: The cloud - the greatest and safest new place for all your infrastructure and critical data

        Think Dilbert sums it up nicely here

        http://dilbert.com/strip/2013-07-05

        1 1 Reply
  7. Jeffrey Nonken

    Well. That explains why I was having weird problems with IMDB early this morning. (I was up until about 5am California time.) Netflix was mostly running ok for me though. Mostly.

    I thought it was my phone having a go. Rebooting seemed to clear my phone networking issues and meantime I switched Netflix to my laptop but IMDB never cleared up. Very puzzling.

    I feel much enlightened now.

    0 0 Reply
  8. Mark 85

    Those who live by the cloud, die by the cloud....

    16 0 Reply
  9. i steal your leccy
    Trollface

    RE: Main PHOTO

    Must remember to get a Cardboard Box tomorrow, looks like my pet Tortoise is getting ready to start Hibernating for the winter!

    3 0 Reply
  10. Gene Cash Silver badge

    Hm.

    I wonder if that was related to a lot of my searches on Amazon.com returning pages and pages of items marked "currently not available for sale" - that seemed a bit nonsensical even for Amazon's amazingly shitty search feature.

    0 0 Reply
  11. Novex
    FAIL

    Eggs

    Eggs, meet basket. Basket, meet eggs.

    11 0 Reply
    1. KLane
      Reply Icon
      IT Angle

      Re: Eggs

      Should be: Eggs, meet basket. Basket, 'what eggs?'

      7 0 Reply
      1. VinceH
        Reply Icon

        Re: Eggs

        More like:

        Eggs, meet basket. Basket, meet eggs. They're your responsibility now.

        <later>

        Basket, I want a couple of those eggs.

        "Your eggs are currently unavailable."

        4 0 Reply
    2. Tom 13
      Reply Icon

      Re: Eggs

      Om letting that alone.

      1 0 Reply
  12. Howard Hanek
    Coat

    Somewhere in the Ether

    The constant stream of warm air thermals from the creators of the 'cloud' was suddenly interrupted by a blast of frigid reality leaving many wondering exactly how do 'clouds' get lost.

    9 0 Reply
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Somewhere in the Ether

      Maybe they evaporate in all the hot air generated by server farms?

      5 0 Reply
  13. Rol

    Would laughing my socks off be inappropriate at this point?

    Perhaps so.

    I'll just stick to gloating. Smugly. With a wry grin. And an eyebrow raised in honour to all those who predicted this very event.

    10 0 Reply
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Would laughing my socks off be inappropriate at this point?

      Predicted? It's not like this is the first time the almighty redundancy monster, the cloud has gone tits down..

      1 0 Reply
  14. Nate Amsden

    Haha

    In the voice of nelson

    HA HA!

    2 0 Reply
  15. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Happy

    I wandered, lonely as a cloud.

    That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

    When all at once I saw a crowd,

    A host, of angry customers;

    28 0 Reply
    1. Arctic fox
      Reply Icon
      Happy

      @Will Godfrey "I wandered, lonely as a cloud"

      Your words are certainly worth an upvote old chap.

      1 0 Reply
      1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
        Reply Icon
        Thumb Up

        Re: @Will Godfrey "I wandered, lonely as a cloud"

        Well spotted, have an upvote from me :)

        1 0 Reply
        1. Arctic fox
          Reply Icon
          Thumb Up

          @Will Godfrey "Well spotted"

          Thank you. I am relived that somebody spotted my little play on words (worth) - it does of course not surprise me in the circumstances that it was you!

          1 0 Reply
  16. P. Lee

    Unpopular though I'm going to be for it

    and as much as I despise most of the cloud, the real question is one of relativity. The problem is of unstable clouds is moot if your own infrastructure is worse.

    7 0 Reply
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Unpopular though I'm going to be for it

      Usually requires a tensor, but capabilities by provider by cost by (actual!) reliability. Maximize by bed get. {Shrug} I mostly see the least accurate assessment on all axes for self-provisioned resources and costs. That hasn't changed in human history yet, so I won't go on a hunger-strike over it.

      0 2 Reply

Page:

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

Forgotten password ?

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon

Other stories you might like