Cloud hosting facility in Ashburn, Va., is source of problem
Amazon Web Services was fully functional on Monday following a Sept. 20 issue at a Virginia facility that temporarily impacted popular sites including Netflix, Tinder, Reddit and many others.
Amazon Web Services is the e-commerce giant’s cloud-computing platform, which provides remote storage and processing power for a number of large-scale Web-based operations.
Reports indicate the issue hit a facility in Northern Virginia, with cascading effects being felt around the world.
Other services impacted include Product Hunt, Medium, SocialFlow, Buffer, GroupMe, Viber and Amazon Echo, according to reports.
Back in 2013, Amazon Web Services suffered a similar problem that took down Instagram, Airbnb and Vine.
An Amazon Web Services health dashboard on Monday reported that services were running correctly.
While Amazon hasn’t put out any official comment on what happened, it appears the service was initially impacted around 6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sunday.
Amazon Web Services is located in Ashburn, Va., about 50 miles from Washington, D.C.
Mike Chase, chief technology officer at dinCloud, used the incident to highlight the importance of geographic redundancy in cloud infrastructure.
“A secure cloud is one where all traffic is filtered, every endpoint defended, multiple products catch what one alone may not, key elements may be replicated geographically, and when you’ve done all you can do and it’s still not enough – that full rollback to a prior point in time is assured,” he said.
DinCloud provides hosted virtual desktops, servers and storage solutions.
