AWS suffers another outage - Netflix, Airbnb, Tinder, IMDb all affected
AWS noted issues with its NoSQL database DynamoDB, as well as app monitoring system CloudWatch as it suffers yet another outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the popular cloud hosting provider, suffered a glitch yesterday that affected many of the customers who rely on its public cloud infrastructure such as Netflix, Tinder and IMDb.
Airbnb, the accommodation booking site, was down for much of yesterday as well, with reports suggesting that it too was plagued by the same issues, as it is also an AWS customer.
Airbnb took to Twitter to reassure its users that the site would be back up and running as soon as possible.
"Thanks for reporting to error 500. Rest assured our team is working to get this resolved as quickly as possible. Thanks for bearing with us," it tweeted yesterday morning at 11:30am.
At around 5pm, the firm tweeted that the site was back up and running.
Yesterday, AWS's status page noted issues with its NoSQL database DynamoDB, its app monitoring system CloudWatch, and Cognito, a service that saves mobile data. The problems all stemmed from Amazon's North Virginia data centre complex.
The likes of Netflix, Tinder and IMDb were also impacted by the firm's issues - with users reportedly unable to access any of the three applications.
Yesterday, the company said on its update of DynamoDB that its metadata service was now stable and that it was actively working on removing throttles.
It continued to work on removing throttles and restoring API availability, and a few hours later it said that it had experienced high error rates for API requests in the US-EAST-1 region, which had been resolved.
Normal service resumed thereafter and according to the firm's status page at the time of writing, there hasn't been any further issues. But AWS customers will be wary that the cloud provider has suffered yet another outage.
Back in 2013, a glitch in its Virginia data centre caused Instagram, Netflix, Vine and Airbnb to suffer intermittent service levels. A year earlier, the company suffered an outage that left many websites, such as Pinterest, inaccessible to users, with a thunderstorm blamed as the culprit. Later in 2012, it suffered another outage, but there was no extreme weather to speak of in this instance. Going further back to 2011, Amazon apologised for outages to websites Reddit, Foursquare and Quorca, which were down to problems with its web-hosting service.