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Ridgewood NJ, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered its third outage in a two week period, as the cloud computing giant’s “U.S.-East-1” cloud region went down in North Virginia.
Various online services reported issues, including Slack, Epic Games Store, and Amazon itself, AWS confirmed via its service health dashboard that it was investigating “increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity issues” for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the region. The company later put the outage down to a loss of power within a datacenter, though it also confirmed further faults related to AWS Directory Service and AWS Single Sign-On which are still being resolved at the time of writing.
Amazon attempted to assure companies that the outage will be resolved for most users shortly, it follows a spate of similar AWS outages over the past few weeks. In early December, companies including Disney+, Netflix, Instacart, and McDonald’s were hit by an outage on the very same U.S.-East-1 cloud region, caused by an “impairment of several network devices” which led to multiple API errors that impacted AWS services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). One week later, two AWS West Coast regions were briefly experiencing difficulties.
While outages are certainly not new for AWS, the frequency over the past couple of weeks and twice at the very same facility will do little to dissuade those that argue in favor of hybrid or multi-region cloud strategies. Particularly where mission-critical services are concerned. Early cloud critics argued of the dangers of cloud services and the dangers of companies losing control of their data .
The Ridgewood blog abandon cloud services do to security and service issues years ago and after the de-platforming of certain businesses in 2020 over political speech we are very happy with our current data strategy .
“The latest AWS outage highlights why it’s so critical for businesses to design their technology infrastructure for resilience, with no single point of failure,” Gleb Budman, cofounder and CEO of cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze, told VentureBeat a an US technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California. That publishes technews, analysis, long-form features, interviews, and videos. “The truth is that anything and everything can fail. Smart organizations work from that assumption, and we see a growing number taking a multi-cloud approach, with data replicated not just across regions but across providers, and portability between providers, to address this specifically.”
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