Amazon Web Services (AWS) rarely goes down unexpectedly, but you can expect a detailed explainer when a major outage does happen.
The latest of AWS’s major outages occurred at 7:30AM PST on Tuesday, December 7, lasted five hours and affected customers using certain application interfaces in the US-EAST-1 Region, including major customers like Disney+, Venmo, Robinhood, and others. In a public cloud of AWS’s scale, a five-hour outage is a major incident.
