#amazonwebservicesaws_ — Public Fediverse posts

The Register: A single DNS race condition brought Amazon’s cloud empire to its knees. “Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB’s DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/25/the-register-a-single-dns-race-condition-brought-amazons-cloud-empire-to-its-knees/

Northeastern University: What caused Amazon Web Services to go down? A Northeastern expert explains. “A Northeastern University cybersecurity and cloud expert says the outage is emblematic of just how fragile the internet has become in the decades since its founding — particularly in regards to data infrastructure and resilience.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/21/northeastern-university-what-caused-amazon-web-services-to-go-down-a-northeastern-expert-explains/

Tom’s Hardware: AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’. “A software engineer and developer, who previously accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of a ‘digital execution,’ has shared the good news that his data has now been restored. What made this impossible task possible was ‘one human being inside AWS [who] decided to give a damn,’ according to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/toms-hardware-aws-users-data-returned-because-one-human-being-inside-aws-decided-to-give-a-damn/

The Register: Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos. “A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials has been released. Before you say anything, yes, we’re pretty sure similar programs and services are out there – including GitHub’s own built-in secrets scanner – but hey, where’s the harm […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/the-register-check-out-this-free-automated-tool-that-hunts-for-exposed-aws-secrets-in-public-repos/

Tom’s Hardware: Security researcher finds vulnerability in internet-connected bed, could allow access to all devices on network. “Dylan Ayrey has released an extended blog with the help of Jake King highlighting the security flaws of the Eight Sleep and the steps he ended up taking to make them no longer an issue, particularly in the face of features that wounded up locked behind a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/toms-hardware-security-researcher-finds-vulnerability-in-internet-connected-bed-could-allow-access-to-all-devices-on-network/