https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet
Found on The Verge on Monday, 07 December 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, experienced a multi-hour outage on Wednesday that affected a large portion of the internet. The service has been nearly fully restored as of 4:18AM ET on Thursday morning, according to Amazon.
In an email to The Verge on Wednesday, Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services.
Here's (again) your regular reminder that going into the cloud does not imply more reliability.