AWS admits to severely impaired services in US-EAST-1 cant even post updates to Service Health Dashboard
Multiple services sickly after Kinesis catches a cold: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Lambda, Managed Blockchain AWS has delivered the one message that will strike fear into the hearts of techies working out their day before Thanksgiving Holidays: US-EAST-1 region is suffering a “severely impaired” service.…
Date: 2020-11-25
URL: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/11/25/aws_down/
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