Domino phenomenon brought about by AWS massive failure

On November 25th, at 9:52 (local time), Amazon announced that a major failure occurred in AWS (Amazon Web Service), a cloud service it provides. Amazon announced that it is actively working to fully restore the service and will continue to provide information from time to time.

Amazon reported on the AWS Health Dashboard that the rate of major service failures is rising due to a failure in the US-EAST-1 region of northern Virginia at 9:52 on the 25th. In addition, it is continuing to work to resolve the issue through an update at 14:52 (local time) on the 25th, and although some service failure rates are improving, it is expected that a full recovery will take several hours.

As AWS is in charge of various cloud services based on availability and convenience, many services have been affected by this failure. Streaming service provider Roku reported a service failure via Twitter, explaining that it was affected by extensive AWS outages as the cause.

Software company Adobe also announced that an AWS error caused a problem with its media creation application, Adobe Spark. Enterprises are complaining about the aftermath of AWS failure one after another.

As AWS is one of the world’s most widely used cloud computing services for the spread of errors in AWS to various services, this one case disrupted the service, saying that if a problem occurs, it can have a wide impact on other web services and applications. It is pointed out that there are many companies that have reported this. Related information can be found here .