The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

W henever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to ...
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Amazon’s Outage Root Cause, $581M Loss Potential And ‘Apology:’ 5 AWS Outage Takeaways

AWS outage caused by a DNS automated systems error may result in a $581 million loss for Amazon as the cloud and AI company make changes to prevent similar failures.
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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services ...
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AWS adds new accelerator to boost DynamoDB database performance

Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database generally available, just two months after launching it in preview mode. AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels ...
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AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other ...

Amazon reveals a single point of failure brought down AWS taking thousands of services with it

Ripple effect: An Amazon Web Services outage knocked dozens of popular online platforms offline across much of the world, ...
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Serverless computing with AWS Lambda, Part 2

DynamoDB is a NoSQL document store that is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). DynamoDB defines data abstractions as tables, which accept common database operations such as insert, retrieve, query, ...