AWS glitch strikes Netflix and Tinder, offering a wake-up call for others
Netflix, Tinder and other major websites were affected for a time Sunday by glitches in Amazon Web Services' Northern Virginia facility, offering a cautionary lesson to other companies that rely on the cloud service for mission-critical capabilities.
The problem manifested itself primarily in the form of higher-than-normal error rates. Sites affected reportedly also included IMDb and Amazon's Instant Video and Books websites.
At the heart of the snafu were issues with AWS's DynamoDB database, but it spread to include other services such as EC2, the mobile-focused Cognito service and the CloudWatch monitoring service, according to the AWS Service Health Dashboard.
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