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Saw workers saying everything has been down in the fulfillment centers for an hour. I can't login to my account. Also AWS is down so people are being logged out of games and services.

Pls b cyberattack

Finally got some news coverage after two hours:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/amazon-outage-october-2025

https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

The Verge is reporting GLOBAL issues.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The internet is shitting out but hexbear is fine?

Fucking finally! I was getting tired of the opposite!

[–] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AWS shit the bed, not the 386sx powered via hamster wheel that is hexbear's server.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

We operate entirely on the immortal hardworking soul of Biggs biggs

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

I just put a new sound blaster in that bad boy.

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Folks, McDonald's is affected. I repeat. The clown is down.

sicko-speeeeen mccrucified sicko-speeeeen

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Served incorrect DNS

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago

Love when aws goes down, wish it happened more often. Though it gives us stupid work to do, it vindicates me on how stupid it is for majority of cloud computing to be on 1 company's services.

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

I am hearing that on its deathbed AWS received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

the internet should be allowed to take a nap once in a while doggirl-sleep

[–] git@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

us-east-1 continues to be the lynchpin holding all AWS regions together.

You can deploy across the globe with multiple redundant pathways and survive a meteor attack, but if some DNS is misapplied in us-east-1 everything falls apart.

This same outcome will keep happening so long as us-east-1 continues to have special treatment. We’re close to two decades of us-east-1 fucking up global services already, make it stop.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, there isn't real redundancy??

[–] git@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s mostly the early AWS services that were created before AWS had the concept of regions.

Certain services e.g. IAM (who/what can access what and how) operate out of us-east-1. If your app is hosted in eu-west-1 but needs to assume an IAM profile to authenticate with S3 to read/write data, you’re fucked until IAM is back online.

S3 has regional buckets but the control plane effectively operates out of us-east-1.

You also need to factor in us-east-1 being the default in most tutorials and libraries, and that a lot of these companies are US based so will stick with that default and not bother with multi-region tenancy because it’s difficult to justify the expense.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

This is a flagrant violation of GDPR, but it's all cool because without it there would be no internet.

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[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if not ... How is most of internet relying on Amazon???

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] bananon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Verge is reporting GLOBAL issues.

I can confirm this, it's happening in Europe as well. Even the automated crossing walk lights were down in my city.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even the automated crossing walk lights were down in my city.

Why is it connected to the internet?

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Innovation sweetie, you wouldn’t understand.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Brb gonna go run crypto miners on the stoplights before they’re reinstalled

[–] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like what would happen to the US economy if all these data centers stopped working? Its like half the US economy now. The power grid is reaching a point it cant handle it very soon and whats gonna happen when there is a big crash?

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They will take down residential service way before service to data centers is ever effected.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we will be given the ultimatum of either being able to use Gemini or keeping our refrigerators on. Most people will choose Gemini because it can give us recipes that only require hot cheetos and g-fuel.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hell yeah. Some AI rag putting that shit out into the aether based on nothing.

This is just DNS DNSing, but everything always has to be China's fault somehow

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Love these “Did China do x?” Headlines

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

How will I eat my slop now? ooooooooooooooh

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know AI is behind this somehow but I just cant prove it

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Probably just maintenance guy unplugging the big router to plug in the vacuum cleaner.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

i'm just now recalling an article where jeff bezos said bashar al-assad "must go". you can't read it because the site it was on used aws, but i promise it's real

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

DynamoDB in US-EAST-1 had a DNS issue

We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables may also be experiencing issues. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. We recommend customers continue to retry any failed requests. We will continue to provide updates as we have more information to share, or by 2:45 AM.

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[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vibe coding finally showing it's consequences??

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I doubt it. We've had DNS issues long before AI and we'll have them long after.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Its always DNS. Who deleted the forwarding zone? Speak up!

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Happened a few times when I was there, rejoice while it lasts, they like to give a few people brooms but it was generally like peace on Earth had come.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting worse? Reddit is now having problems with image hosting.

sicko-wholesome

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

i was trying to consoom on swappa and it's not letting me 😒

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

Just woke up to this, already see my work phone has been going nuts and glad I don't to clean up the mess.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Dead internet isn't just a theory anymore

sicko-jammin

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

On the one hand lol, lmao, but on the other hand Canvas (which is apparently AWS-dependent, love that) is also down and I've got homework to do

[–] THEPH0NECOMPANY@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea Canvas is down for me too and I can't do any of my work cause all of it is on Canvas, can't watch lectures, can't view PowerPoints, can't even see my HW assignments. I got stuff do tonight and tomorrow shit sucks

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

According to DownDetector at 3:44 a.m. ET, 5,852 users reported issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to DownDetector. The majority of the problems were concentrated in the US-East-1 region (77%), followed by US-West-1 (13%) and US-West-2 (10%), highlighting that the outage primarily impacted the eastern United States but was also felt on the west coast.

As per the website, Amazon (.com) users reported a much higher number. More than 14,000 users as of 3:44 a.m. ET on Monday. The most affected areas of the service included the mobile App: 53% of users reported issues; home Page: 26% of users reported issues; shopping cart: 22% of users reported issues.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

the east is red

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Oh that’s so fucking funny. Just last night I was going through stuff and found an old Amazon gift card. How topical.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So that's why Imdb isn't working!

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

And ytmnd :(

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