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Ask HN: Is the Amazon outage a cyberattack?

• LinuxBender 5y ago
  Based on the various comments from various threads it does not appear to be. That is one of their oldest AZ's so I would lean towards automation that probably worked in all the other AZ's maybe stepped on some old technical-debt-landmines. Maybe they will post a post-mortem given the impact. Hopefully people go easy on whoever tripped over that bug/landmine.
  • DantesKite 5y ago
    Looks like that was the case. Good assessment.
• vmoore 5y ago
  Putting on my conspiracy robe, I was thinking the recent Facebook outage had more to it, and was essentially 'chaos engineering'[0]. Think of the outage as a sort of 'dry run' for when disaster happens, and documenting the impact and preventing future outages (like earth getting hit by a sun flare or a cosmic ray). AWS going down could very well have been a deliberate chaos engineering tactic? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering