AWS shock: Could blockchain technology give the world an internet free of disruption?

Last week’s Amazon Web Services outage took down all sorts of apps and websites, revealing how fragile the internet is. Its ...
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AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days — automation systems race and crash

The root cause was reportedly that the DNS configuration for DynamoDB (database service) was broken and published to Route53 (DNS service). In turn, parts of EC2 (virtual machine service) also went ...

What caused the AWS outage as Amazon releases statement?

Amazon has revealed the cause of the outage was a software bug related to DynamoDB, the service’s database system where ...

AWS outage caused by "unlikely interaction" between automated systems

The Amazon Web Services outage in North Virginia was caused by a software bug in an automated DNS management system that ...

Ramsey Theory Group CEO Dan Herbatschek Urges Enterprises to Embrace Hybrid and Private Cloud Architectures in Wake of Recent AWS Outage

Monday’s AWS outage is a stark reminder that even the most pervasive cloud infrastructures are not immune to failure,” said Herbatschek. “For many organizations, the cloud has become the backbone of ...

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of ...

Amazon Web Services Says Outage Has Been Resolved, Though Some Backlogs Still Being Processed

Hundreds Of Websites & Apps Were Reported Offline Following Outage At North Virginia Amazon Web Services Data Center ...

An AWS outage took down nearly the entire Internet. What caused it?

More than 1,000 services were impacted by the outage, including popular platforms like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Reddit, which ...
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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services ...
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Three scientists win Nobel Prize 2025 in Chemistry for developing ‘new type of molecular architecture’

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi on Wednesday “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Among the three scientists, Susumu ...
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Mónica Ponce de León to conclude her service as dean of the School of Architecture

Mónica Ponce de León, who has successfully led Princeton’s School of Architecture for a decade, will conclude her service as dean at the end of 2025 and return to the faculty and the practice of ...
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Heatherwick reveals twisted Humanise Wall at Seoul Architecture Biennale

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled the 90-metre-long, four-storey-high Humanise Wall as the centrepiece of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Revealed at the opening ...