Fidelity was very slow when I logged on this morning. Once in, all worked as intended. Amazon appears to be down. Have not been able to view account or do any product searches all day.
Link”At 1:26am PDT (4:26am ET, 9:26am BST), the issue was diagnosed as a big one related to the DynamoDB endpoint of AWS — the digital phonebook of the internet.”“ While the Amazon mobile app itself going down is one thing, Amazon Web Services is the crucial one here. It's the backbone of a lot of the internet, and the likes of Snapchat, Venmo, Ring, Pokémon GO and more are also down because of it.”Other reports mention trading at Robinhood as having been impacted
The U.S. government (Defense, CIA) also rely on Amazon’s AWS cloud server to some extent. Don’t know if those have been impacted.
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Edit: After reading the below report, it seems the vulnerability is a lot greater than just "national".
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’- Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
DynamoDB is a centralized database service that many internet-based services
use to store key data, track user information, and manage operations.
Although many AWS services appear to be functioning properly now,
Amazon's recovery efforts are ongoing.
Here are the latest updates reported by Amazon.
Oct 20 12:15 PM PDT We continue to observe recovery across all AWS services, and instance launches are succeeding across multiple Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Regions. For Lambda, customers may face intermittent function errors for functions making network requests to other services or systems as we work to address residual network connectivity issues. To recover Lambda’s invocation errors, we slowed down the rate of SQS polling via Lambda Event Source Mappings. We are now increasing the rate of SQS polling as we experience more successful invocations and reduced function errors.
We will provide another update by 1:00 PM PDT.
Oct 20 11:22 AM PDT Our mitigations to resolve launch failures for new EC2 instances continue to progress and we are seeing increased launches of new EC2 instances and decreasing networking connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing significant improvements to Lambda invocation errors, especially when creating new execution environments (including for Lambda@Edge invocations).
We will provide an update by 12:00 PM PDT.
Oct 20 10:38 AM PDT Our mitigations to resolve launch failures for new EC2 instances are progressing and the internal subsystems of EC2 are now showing early signs of recovering in a few Availability Zones (AZs) in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are applying mitigations to the remaining AZs at which point we expect launch errors and network connectivity issues to subside.
We will provide an update by 11:30 AM PDT.
Oct 20 10:03 AM PDT We continue to apply mitigation steps for network load balancer health and recovering connectivity for most AWS services. Lambda is experiencing function invocation errors because an internal subsystem was impacted by the network load balancer health checks. We are taking steps to recover this internal Lambda system. For EC2 launch instance failures, we are in the process of validating a fix and will deploy to the first AZ as soon as we have confidence we can do so safely.
We will provide an update by 10:45 AM PDT.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
The article below supposedly lists all the websites which were impacted by this outage.
I doubt this list is complete.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/internet/amazon-outage-every-website-knocked-offline-by-the-huge-aws-outage
to fall back to other regions or cloud providers.
Vaibhav Tupe, a senior member with nonprofit technical organization IEEE, stated:
“This outage shows that even the largest cloud providers are vulnerable
when failure occurs at the control-plane level.
It raises fundamental questions about over reliance on a single provider or region and may accelerate
demand for multi-cloud and multi-region architectures as a baseline expectation for resilience.”
the cloud oligopoly is by far not the major problem; at least there is some capitalism nudging competition\competence.
gop cuts to cyberdefense from foreign actors is a clear sign america is open to looting.
individuals, and 99% of corporations, are on their own. china, russia, and NK has tens of thousands waiting for this era.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/10/02/government-shutdown-cisa-weaker-insiders-say/
the one time trumps plays equal opp globalist, its for cybercrime (see crypto)
one should consider moving abroad may not protect liquid wealth assets...see today's post on muni hack.
Comment: "An update... contained an error". That's why I never update anything unless forced to, and then kicking and screaming every inch of the way. If it works don't f___ with it !!
If it works don't f___ with it !!"
This is a very good philosophy.
I would make an exception for security vulnerabilities.