Originally published by Mashable
Late in the week, anAmazon Web Services outageaffected a range of websites. In the wake of that outage, which lasted from Thursday into Friday,Amazonhas revealed what happened.
In an update on theofficial AWS status website, Amazon revealed that the outage was caused by a “thermal event resulting in a loss of power” at a single data center in northern Virginia. In other words, some tech overheated. This prompted Amazon to shift traffic away from that data center’s “Availability Zone” during the late afternoon on Thursday. By early afternoon on Friday, Amazon had managed to restore its cooling systems, which kick-started the process of getting everything back online.
“Our main effort during the event mitigation strategy was to bring back our cooling systems capacity. By May 8 1:50 PM, we were able to stabilize cooling system capacity to pre-event levels, which helped us to restore the majority of the impaired EC2 instances and EBS volumes,” Amazon said. “A small number of instances and EBS volumes remain impaired, and we continue to work to recover all affected remaining resources.”
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The outage affected some popular apps, like FanDuel and Coinbase. Users were unable to bet or trade as they normally would on those apps for a while, likely leading to some consternation on Thursday and Friday. However, the issueseemsto be mostly resolved at this point, so you can probably get your NBA playoff prop bets in now, if you so desire.
Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last decade reviewing games, smartphones, headphones, and laptops, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. He is also a Pisces, a cat lover, and a Kansas City sports fan. Alex can be found on Bluesky atyelix.bsky.social.
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