Cloud, Compiled - Issue #45

When Amazon Web Services was interrupted, some vacuum cleaners, light switches and cat-food dispensers stopped working Resume Subscription

On Monday, several services on the internet ground to a halt because of an outage at some Amazon Web Services cloud servers. The outage affected Netflix, Disney Plus, PUBG, League Of Legends, Ring security cameras, as well as Amazon products and delivery infrastructure.

John is a technologist with a background that includes repairing some of the earliest PCs at the component level and inventing hosted source control. He’s done infrastructure projects at Amazon, Wily, Walmart.com, Oracle and many others.

Re:invent AWS annual customer jamboree, Re:invent, is over, and while the firm impressed some attendees with tech advances, custom hardware like Graviton 3, and an array of new features, many were incremental rather than revolutionary.

The cloud solution team has an architect who has designed the target cloud solution or the selection and configuration of the different types of cloud technology—hopefully, while keeping the business requirements in mind.

Last week’s AWS re:Invent conference underscored the degree to which cloud computing generally and Amazon Web Services Inc. specifically have disrupted the technology landscape.

All three of the leading cloud computing providers are now large – and rapidly growing – businesses.