Amazon Web Services having issues

[bcla]

Not sure if it's solved yet, but there's been some reporting that Disney+ was having outages as a result. I guess Disney works with AWS.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1468275921786392578

 

[VandVsmama]

I'm pretty sure that the College Board website is affected by this, too. Have been trying all afternoon to login to find out ODD's PSAT scores and their website is reporting an outage.

 

[georgina]

Not just Disney+, but apparently no one can check into Disney World resorts right now either. Messy! i just had trouble with the medicare website, trying to pay DH's premium.

 

[JimMIA]

Here's a little more info.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/07/ama...causes-issues-at-disney-netflix-coinbase.html

 

[JoeA]

I listen to Amazon Music at my desk and it won't connect.

 

[kanerf]

Weird. I have been watching Hulu all afternoon and I am on YoutubeTV right now. Neither impacted.

 

[GreatLakes]

Depending on the source AWS powers about 1/3 of any hosted web solution. I know Disney uses AWS for some services after looking at some source code for RunDisney pages.

We started getting alerts from some services we use that are cloud based a little while ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outagehttps://www.datacenterdynamics.com/...outage-brings-down-services-around-the-world/https://status.aws.amazon.com/

 

[bcla]

I have no problem with Disney+, but a lot of times these issues are regional depending on which servers are affected. I was checking some websites earlier this morning and the banner ads looked messed up with some message about some missing file from AWS.

 

[kdonnel]

Weird. I have been watching Hulu all afternoon and I am on YoutubeTV right now. Neither impacted.

I would hope YouTubeTV being Google owned would use GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of AWS.

While AWS is the 5000 pound Gorilla, there are other cloud hosting services. GCP, Azure (Microsoft), IBM, Dell, HP, etc.

But what happens sometimes is a company that doesn't use AWS is still down because a service they use uses AWS.

 

[cmarsh31]

I'm pretty sure that the College Board website is affected by this, too. Have been trying all afternoon to login to find out ODD's PSAT scores and their website is reporting an outage.

Yup. My students will be thrilled if they have an excuse not to do their HW on AP Classroom tonight.

 

[bcla]

I would hope YouTubeTV being Google owned would use GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of AWS.

While AWS is the 5000 pound Gorilla, there are other cloud hosting services. GCP, Azure (Microsoft), IBM, Dell, HP, etc.

But what happens sometimes is a company that doesn't use AWS is still down because a service they use uses AWS.

Some services use a combination, like some Google ads apparently tie into AWS.

 

[rowan1813]

Yep, my students haven't been able to access their textbook online all day (thank goodness for hard copies!) and they are having trouble turning in assignments on Schoology. Can the semester just end already?

 

[kdonnel]

Some services use a combination, like some Google ads apparently tie into AWS.

Ideally every company would diversify but cost is usually the issue.

The last company I worked at was working on diversifying in AWS. Making sure services ran in more than us-east-1.

In the year and a half I worked there the monthly AWS bill went from $25,000 to $85,000. They were starting to wonder if the lost business during an outage was worth trying to save in the long run.

 

[bcla]

Yep, my students haven't been able to access their textbook online all day (thank goodness for hard copies!) and they are having trouble turning in assignments on Schoology. Can the semester just end already?

My schooling was in an era were we were transitioning from 16mm film to VHS, and later from ditto machines to photocopiers. I have no idea how it's done with online assignments other than occasionally watching my kid. None of this makes sense to me. I remember doing citations in a standard format, but then asked how it was done with websites with summer coop employee. And that was almost 20 years ago.

The only technological thing that ever messed us up was a power outage.

 

[JimMIA]

Yep, my students haven't been able to access their textbook online all day (thank goodness for hard copies!) and they are having trouble turning in assignments on Schoology. Can the semester just end already?

I never thought of that! DD is in finals this week at college; I hope that doesn't get all messed up -- unless we can choose the class...

 

[wvjules]

I forgot about my Adele pre-sale today until I got an email that it was moved to tomorrow. So thanks AWS! I can still give it a shot tomorrow.

 

[rowan1813]

My schooling was in an era were we were transitioning from 16mm film to VHS, and later from ditto machines to photocopiers. I have no idea how it's done with online assignments other than occasionally watching my kid. None of this makes sense to me. I remember doing citations in a standard format, but then asked how it was done with websites with summer coop employee. And that was almost 20 years ago.

The only technological thing that ever messed us up was a power outage.

We have been heavily encouraged to do more assignments online and I am so done with all of it. Between the internet not working in my room half the time, the kids forgetting to charge their Chromebooks or not bringing their chargers with them (as they have been told to!), outages of different platforms we use and the rampant cheating , I want to go back to paper and pencil. The kids need to work on their penmanship and fine motor skills anyways.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It's been this way since just before 11am I believe.

IMDb was down/heavily impacted, Echo was too, we have a lamp in the great room hooked up to the smart plug connected to Alexa and it wouldn't respond to the command to turn it off (said something like a tp link issue and self reported it), Amazon's website on/off issues, have an order was trying to look at it was fine but the product page for the item errored out.

Server issues can be tricky. When I was at the insurance company the best program we used was a 1980s IBM program that did not rely on the internet but did rely on 2 servers (1 for east coast 1 for west coast with the U.S. split up that way). While it was not a common occurrence there were times every now and then that the program would go down because the server would go down. Usually just one side (west or east coast) rarely both servers.

I do think some issues are resolved or at least not as prevalent. I was able to access IMDb about 1 1/2 hours ago like normal. Disney+ didn't seem to have an issue for us.

 

[Kittyblue]

Ah, that explains why my playlist wasn’t working earlier.

 

[1GoldenSun]

Students weren't able to take exams today at the university where I teach. I'm thankful that my class's exams were on Saturday, but I couldn't enter any grades starting around noon. It's working now.

It's going to be a mess for them to reschedule missed exams because the exam matrix is carefully crafted so there won't be any overlap. All upcoming time slots are taken, and students have travel plans to head home so they're not going to want to extend exam week. I don't know what they're going to do and I'm so glad the only hardship for me is that I'm a little behind in my grading.