Calls for cloud diversification after global AWS outage

Calls for cloud diversification after global AWS outage

The global AWS outage showed that online services are heavily dependent on a handful of infrastructure and cloud service providers. (Image source: 123RF, created via GenAI) Analysts and industry players are urging organisations to review their cloud computing environments following the global outage experienced yesterday by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The outage disrupted internet services…

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AWS hit by global outage

AWS hit by global outage

AWS is observing early signs of recovery for some impacted AWS services. Cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered a global outage that is affecting users. Providing updates on the AWS Health Dashboard, the company says it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region. “This…

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Starlink suffers rare global outage

Starlink suffers rare global outage

SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in the US and Europe began experiencing the outage at around 9pm SAST, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced outage tracker. Starlink, which has more than…

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