Amazon internally blames an 'as of yet unknown source' for massive AWS outage: 'These devices are receiving more traffic than they are able to process'
in the midst of the holiday shopping season. Some warehouse workers and drivers were sent home as the company's internal communications, delivery routing and monitoring systems stalled.
The network issue"specifically impacted" Amazon's internal DNS servers. As of 2:04 p.m. Seattle time, the company did not have an estimate on when the system would be fully operational, according to a message onA separate internal note said"firewalls are being overwhelmed by an as of yet unknown source," adding that the AWS networking teams are working on"blocking the traffic from the top talkers/offending hosts at the firewall.
Activity from Amazon's real-time digital advertising auction may be responsible for much of the traffic overwhelming the firewall, according to internalEven inside AWS, however, information on the outage remains sketchy. One AWS employee speculated that the outage was caused by an"orchestrated DNS attack," while another employee downplayed those concerns, saying it was more of an"internal thing" related to networking and firewall saturation.
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