„Unexpected behavior“ to blame for AWS outage, Amazon says as it pledges to get better at tracking issues.
Amazon has revealed its findings into the cause of the recent AWS outage that affected websites and users around the world. A wide range of Amazon services such as Prime Video, Alexa and Ring, alongside high-level customers such as Facebook and Disney Plus, all saw downtime or significant slowdowns due to an issue in an AWS US region that lasted for many hours. The company has now completed its investigation into the outage, which it says was down to an unexpected series of events initally aimed at boosting its services. “An automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network,” AWS wrote in a blog post.
