The recent data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon”>Amazon Web Services outage that took out a significant portion of the internet, games, and even smart home devices for days, was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/colossal-aws-outage-breaks-the-internet-roblox-fortnite-zoom-and-beyond-all-crippled” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/colossal-aws-outage-breaks-the-internet-roblox-fortnite-zoom-and-beyond-all-crippled”>extensively covered in the news. Cloud services’ distributed architecture should protect customers from failures like this one, so what went wrong? Amazon data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=tomshardware_us_5618835686627796362&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fmessage%2F101925%2F&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fbig-tech%2Fmassive-amazon-web-service-outage-that-took-out-a-chunk-of-the-internet-and-services-for-days-was-due-to-dns-automation-systems-race-and-crash” data-url=”https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” rel=”sponsored noopener” data-hl-processed=”skimlinks” data-placeholder-url=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=hawk-custom-tracking&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fmessage%2F101925%2F&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fbig-tech%2Fmassive-amazon-web-service-outage-that-took-out-a-chunk-of-the-internet-and-services-for-days-was-due-to-dns-automation-systems-race-and-crash” data-google-interstitial=”false” data-merchant-name=”amazon.com” data-merchant-network=”SkimLinks”>published a detailed technical post-mortem of the failure, and as data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://devrant.com/rants/3250039/dns-haiku” data-url=”https://devrant.com/rants/3250039/dns-haiku” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>the famous haiku poem goes: “It’s not DNS. / There’s no way it’s DNS. / It was DNS.”
As a rough analogy, consider what happens when there’s a car…
