Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services suffered a serious outage that took down a good portion of the internet, with major disruptions to apps like Snapchat, Strava, and Venmo. The outage caused by a Domain Name System resolution issue lasted multiple hours, as some reports claimed it affected at least 1,000 different apps and services.
We tracked some of the larger services that were disrupted, including Zoom, Roku, and Ring cameras. But the outage affected others, too. After all, AWS is a major backbone of the internet, covering 30% of the cloud industry according to ABC News. So that means a lot of devices and services are vulnerable when outages hit, especially some that are quite surprising.
