Browsing posts tagged with: web outages
What Should You Learn From the AWS Outage?
March 3, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
So, what did we all take away from this week’s AWS outage? Depends who you ask. Plenty of us in IT think it was a good reminder to consider multicloud and hybrid cloud environments—basically, do not put all your cloud workload eggs in one AWS basket. The S3 storage outage affected about 150,000 websites hosted…Continue reading
Boom Goes the “Dyn”amite
October 21, 2016 by Alec Pinkham
The internet crashed today. It wasn’t the normal WiFi reset, network congestion, single-site outage or even the obscure mouse-ate-the-cable. The east-coast internet was under attack due to a DDoS attack that took down Dyn, a leader in DNS services for much of the east coast of the United States. Dyn’s status page has been kept…Continue reading