AWS took a nap at 3AM and took half the internet down with it

Watch AWS took a nap at 3AM and took half the internet down with it - Rizzle on Dailymotion

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00:00AWS took a nap at 3 a.m. and took half the internet down with it.

00:05Look who decided to take an unscheduled nap at 3.11 a.m. ET this morning.

00:10Amazon Web Services, the digital backbone that apparently holds up more of the internet than we're comfortable admitting.

00:17The carnage was swift and merciless.

00:19Amazon's own services went dark first, followed by a who's who of digital essentials.

00:26Alexa stopped listening to your existential 3 a.m. questions.

00:30ChatGPT couldn't generate your weird fanfiction, Snapchat users couldn't send their regrettable drunk texts,

00:36and perhaps most tragically, the McDonald's app couldn't fulfill your McFlurry cravings.

00:41Even Fortnite players got booted mid-Battle Royale, which honestly might have prevented more property damage than we realize.

00:47A quick look at Down Detector shows exactly how many services went down and are still seeing issues because of the outage.

00:54The chaos centered around AWS's U.S. East 1 region, because of course it did.

01:01This particular server farm has become the internet's most reliable, unreliable friend,

01:06going down like clockwork every few years and taking civilization with it.

01:10Perplexity's CEO had to sheepishly confirm on X that yes, they were down too,

01:16joining the growing list of companies awkwardly explaining to users

01:19why their million-dollar cloud infrastructure suddenly resembled a potato.

01:24Amazon started seeing significant signs of recovery by 5.27 a.m. ET and by 6.35 a.m.

01:32They claimed most services were succeeding normally, corporate speak for

01:36we have no idea what happened, but it seems to be working now.

01:40The root cause? Still a mystery.

01:43But hey, at least we got a gentle reminder that the entire digital economy runs on like three data centers in Virginia.