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 ...
Network World

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 ...
CRN

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.

AWS reveals more on just what went wrong in major outage

The cloud hosting company's incident was caused by a major outage at AWS’ US-East-1 region, during which a DNS issue ...
InfoWorld

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, ...

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, ...
ZDNet

Amazon switches on DynamoDB cloud database service

Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others. The service takes ...