AWS-East API having outage

[navychop]

sounds painful

Only at first….

 

[TRG]

Only at first….

Were you a submariner?

 

[primestar31]

Were you a submariner?

He used to go to the submarine races... lol

 

[Foxbat]

Amazon AWS outage takes down Disney+, Alexa, and more - 9to5Mac

Amazon’s AWS cloud servers are suffering from issues this morning, taking down a handful of services including Disney+, Kindle, Tinder,...

9to5mac.com

 

[navychop]

Were you a submariner?

Yes. For 25 months.

 

[TRG]

I bought a Kindle book today and it downloaded immediately.

TheKrell, were you able to re-connect your SXM account to Alexa?

 

[comfortably_numb]

TheKrell, were you able to re-connect your SXM account to Alexa?

I had that issue yesterday; I don't think the accounts were ever truly un-connected- when I got home from work, SXM worked on all my Echo devices.

 

[TheKrell]

TheKrell, were you able to re-connect your SXM account to Alexa?

Yup; I thought I mentioned that above. Thanks for asking.

I had that issue yesterday; I don't think the accounts were ever truly un-connected- when I got home from work, SXM worked on all my Echo devices.

I'll bet you're right. But before I realized that Amazon was having an outage, I assumed what Alexa told me was true and I needed to re-link my account. Online here Amazon Sign-In it still showed my two accounts linked. So I de-linked them to se if I could get it back. Unfortunately, once I did that, I could not link them again until after 8PM.

 

[klang]

Explanation from Amazon: Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

My eyes glazed over partway through the first paragraph.

 

[Foxbat]

TL;DR - ”Huh. It’s not supposed to do that.”

 

[TheKrell]

TL;DR - ”Huh. It’s not supposed to do that.”

I read maybe half. My takeaway is that this occurred on their internal network due to an automatic scaling algorithm that scaled up network use (particularly their DNS requests) well beyond capacity. Because it was on their internal network, they had a hell of a time diagnosing because all that network monitoring software was impacted as well.