You'd be hard pressed to find an online service that isn't associated with AWS in some way.

I brought down all my department's services to take a day off and blame it on Amazon. Next year when negotiating a raise/budget increase, I'll point to this incident and take credit for migrating us off AWS after six months of in-person training classes (either in places I haven't visited or would like to see again) and another six months of hard work in the office (napping in the server room).

2026 is looking pretty good already and I definitely won't regret tempting fate by saying that.

The really stupid thing is that even if you weren't in AWS east us 1 you were still boned because that is where AWS does it's service authentication.

We all fund the devil pretending we don't know.

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I've been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren't even that important when there isn't a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey's pawed AWS into non existence.

I wouldn't look at it that way. Even companies not leveraging AWS directly will be impacted.

My wife and I are at Disneyland today, and their site is down. xD

Yep, I just love how one service provider goes down and way to much of the internet goes down with it.

All of them?

All of them.

fr i cant believe clash royale is a part of that

EBSCO was down. Ask me how my dissertation writing progressed today...

scums

Not a plural/countable word.

I haven't been able to use Flickr for 10 hours. I'm so mad