Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage (BBC News)

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt

 

[FighterJock]

So any signs of what actually caused the outage to some of the websites? As all my usual websites were okay Grey Havoc

 

[OliverSedlacek]

I'm a little disconcerted to learn that, here in the UK, HMRC was disrupted.
Sensistive personal, financial and national information stored on non-UK servers, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Grey Havoc]

So any signs of what actually caused the outage to some of the websites? As all my usual websites were okay Grey Havoc

A quick overview can be found here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev1en9077ro
On a related note:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240724-the-day-the-internet-turned-off

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20pgp3nx07o

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1347211/smart-beds-malfunctioned-during-aws-outage