October 20th news (editor Ê·ÕýØ©)On Monday afternoon Beijing time, a large number of Internet applications in the U.S. area were closed out of service almost at the same time.

The latest news shows, What happened was Amazon AWS, the global leader in cloud computing, which also highlights the inevitable risks of high concentration of Internet infrastructure.

Multiple applications impacted

Internet service surveillance site Downdetector revealed that hundreds of thousands of U.S. websites and apps were hit by the incident.The main platforms and services that have been identified as failing include:

Amazon's own websites: Amazon e-commerce portal, Alexa voice assistant, Amazon Prime Video;

Financial and streaming services: Robinhood, Coinbase, PayPal's Venmo, Chime, Disney +, Apple TV

Social media: Snapchat, Reddit

Games: Roblox, Fortress Night, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox, Ubiquity

Other: McDonald¡¯s, The Wall Street Journal, Perplexity, Multi-Neighbourhood

Images of faulty pages.

The source of the failure pointed to Amazon's large data center facility in Northern Virginia, which is critical to the operation of the global Internet. There are also reports that Internet services in the UK have also been affected, involving many common platform services and banks.

Customers at Lloyd¡¯s Bank, Halifax Bank and Bank of Scotland failure to access the online banking system, and the UK tax system¡¯s network services were also affected.

As of press time, Amazon Cloud Services confirmed that several AWS services in the eastern U.S. region experienced increased error rates and increased latency, especially Amazon DynamoDB, which experienced a significant increase in error rates during request processing.This core service, thousands of companies provide databases to support their programs, explains why failures can have such a widespread impact.

Amazon Cloud Services confirms failure

The cause of the massive failure in the Amazon database is unclear, and the timing of the service recovery is not clear.

Amazon AWS provides cloud computing services for global governments, enterprises and individuals, including servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development and security solutions. When an AWS service goes down, the websites and apps that rely on its service also go down.