From the root cause of Amazon’s outage to its potential $581 million cost, CRN breaks down the five important results and findings from AWS’ new post-mortem report. ‘We will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to improve our availability even further,’ AWS says.
Amazon’s outage that affected thousands of companies and millions of people was caused by two automated systems updating the same data simultaneously, leading to a DNS (Domain Name System) issue that brought down AWS’ DynamoDB database.
Cyber risk analytics firm CyberCube just released a preliminary insured loss estimate for AWS’ outage, projecting a loss of up to $581 million.
“We apologize for the impact this event caused our customers,” said AWS in its post-mortem report of the outage results and root cause.
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