You would think they would learn their lesson. But nope!
Last week, Amazon showed Kim Kardashian how to actually break the internet (which is still a relevant reference… right?). Thanks to Amazon Web Services completely crapping the bed, everything from major online banking portals to the biggest video games like Fortnite and even some major social media sites went fully offline. And this wasn’t a momentary outage like we are used to, as it took AWS 16 hours to fix the problem. Some reports suggest over 2,000 businesses were impacted by this outage, and, due to its scale and the time it took to resolve, it has cost billions of dollars in lost productivity. So, what happened? Well, it looks like Amazon proved that AI can’t replace workers for the second time!
The official cause of this AWS outage was a DNS resolution issue. But that isn’t the full story, as typically these kinds of issues are relatively easy and quick to fix, especially for an industry leader like AWS. This outage should have been a momentary blip. So, why did it take 16 hours to resolve?
Well, it is painfully apparent to anyone paying attention what has happened: AI turned this issue into a major global event.
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