Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
Postmortem writeup of this week's massive AWS us-east-1 outage. tl;dr:
- DynamoDB runs into a consistency failure in an internal DNS optimization service;
- EC2 provisioning depends on DynamoDB and craps out;
- Network load balancers screw up due to impact of EC2 outage.
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