Yesterday, at re:Invent 2018, Amazon made a plethora of announcements ranging from a new base-station as a service (AWS Ground Station) to introducing re:Inforce, a new security conference. But one announcement stood out in particular—the unveiling of AWS Global Accelerator—their plan to allow AWS customers to ride their private backbone……
Most enterprises began their cloud journey with a single infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Lately, compelling offerings from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), IBM, Digital Ocean and others have created a plethora of options, with best-of-breed functionality designed for different workload types. Much as we saw…
On the morning of May 31st, 2018, shortly after midnight Pacific Time, users reported an outage in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) US-East-2 region. An issue with Internet connectivity caused this data center to lose reachability to the Internet, impacting the functioning of any apps with external dependencies such as API…
On Friday, March 2nd we saw a severe outage across Amazon AWS’ US-East-1 region, located in Ashburn, VA. This outage impacted Amazon’s very own Alexa along with multiple apps and services hosted within the IaaS provider, including Slack, Twilio and Atlassian JIRA. Although the infrastructure recovered very quickly from what…
On Friday, March 2nd, 2018, a power outage hit the AWS-East Region (Ashburn), affecting hundreds of critical enterprise services like Atlassian, Slack and Twilio. Significant corporate websites and Amazon’s own service offerings were impacted as well. ThousandEyes operates a global set of software agents performing Internet-aware network monitoring. We were…