Re:Akamai Edge DNS was down
by mandelbrotwurst on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:42PM
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It’s just based on user reports, so this is people mischaracterizing it as an AWS outage.
Re:Akamai Edge DNS was down
by mcintyre1994 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:51PM
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Yep that's my point. I'm guessing that for a lot of sites they can verify if there's an outage pretty easily when they see a spike in reports, but for something like AWS unless they updated their status page (lol) or downdetector ran a bunch of stuff on there just to check with, I guess they don't have a good way to verify it.
Re:Akamai Edge DNS was down
by mandelbrotwurst on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:51PM
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Gotcha, yeah I guess I always just considered that out of scope for their service and that it’s just a report aggregator but I suppose you would expect it to be at least a little bit clever based on the “detector” name
> So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something?
> Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web sites and services. Not sure what is going on.
> Miss us? @aldotcom and a whole bunch of other folks have been knocked off the internet by what appears to be an AWS attack/system failure. We'll be back. ?