Once, I was in Lima, Peru, heading an AWS architecting course. During their first practice, the students started to complain about their labs issuing 500 errors, timeouts, and general inconsistencies. After a closer look, I realized that something uncommon was happening. I opened my personal production web console and navigated directly to the alerts center, and I found a large number of events involving S3, and many other systems, in northern Virginia. In the media, you could read messages like the following:
- No, you're not crazy. Part of the internet broke (https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-web-services-aws-s3-service-problem/)
- How a typo took down S3, the backbone of the internet (https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/2/14792442/amazon-s3-outage-cause-typo-internet-server)
- Amazon S3 Outage Has Broken a Large Chunk of the Internet (https://www.forbes.com/sites...