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Originally Published 2 months ago — by GeekWire
Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage caused by a rare software bug and faulty automation that led to a cascading failure, affecting global services. The company has disabled the problematic automation, plans to fix the bug, and improve safety measures to prevent future incidents.
Originally Published 2 months ago — by theregister.com
Amazon's DynamoDB experienced a critical DNS race condition caused by a flaw in its automated DNS management system, leading to a day-long outage that disrupted major AWS services and websites, with potential damages reaching hundreds of billions of dollars. The incident was triggered by a race condition between DNS Enactors, resulting in DNS records being deleted and causing widespread service failures across AWS's cloud infrastructure.