An outage in Amazon's US-EAST-1 region caused widespread chaos, taking websites and services offline globally, including in Europe.
The problems began when Amazon Web Services (AWS) noticed increased error rates and latencies for multiple services within its US-EAST-1 region.
After all, cloud operations are supposed to have some built-in resiliency, right?
AWS' reliance on a single location raised difficult questions about the dependence on one cloud provider.
Author's summary: AWS outage causes global chaos due to dependence on one region.