A major internet issue is causing global chaos online, as a key Amazon service goes down.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFront is currently causing NSW resolution errors worldwide. AWS procides
“We can confirm errors for DNS resolution for some CloudFront distributions. During this time, customers may receive an NXDOMAIN response,” AWS said in an update online.
“Additionally, customers may also experience delayed propagation for changes to CloudFront distributions. We have identified the root cause of the issue and are actively working on multiple paths to resolving the errors.
“We have verified that our initial mitigation effort on a portion of the affected subsystem was successful, and we are actively working toward performing that mitigation across the fleet. We recommend customers continue to retry any failed requests while we work toward mitigation.
“A few services that use CloudFront distributions for delivering content may also be affected at this time.”
In Australia, users reported issues with Strava, AWS and Australia post.
Globally, users also reported issues accessing Salesforce, Discord, Grindr, Reddit and Wattpad.
What is AWS CloudFront?
Amazon’s CloudFront is a system designed to speed up distribution of web services and is one of the most used services globally.
Basically, when a user attempts to access a website, app or service which uses CloudFront, the system pulls data from the origin server, the pushes that back to the user.
More to come…
https://thewest.com.au/technology/aws-outage-update-amazon-web-services-cloudfront-experience-global-outage-operation-issue-c-21597705
