AWS outage was not due to a cyberattack — but shows potential for ‘far worse’ damage
Snippet of Article: The massive outage that hit Amazon Web Services early Monday and took down several major sites and services was due to an internal issue within the cloud giant’s infrastructure. In a new update Monday at 8:43 a.m. PT, Amazon said the root cause of the outage was an “underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers.” ... "The outage impacted everything from sites including Facebook, Coinbase, and Amazon itself, to check-in kiosks at LaGuardia Airport. ...DNS resolution issue with its DynamoDB product..."
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