AWS Kinesis Outage Affecting Many Organizations - 2020-11-25 COPY

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-heres-what-caused-major-aws-outage-last-week-apologies/

https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/

https://dev.to/heroku/the-worst-aws-failure-in-history-429a

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/aws-outage-reinvent-salesforce-slack?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

Amazon Kinesis allows to aggregate, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data to get timely insights and react quickly to the information it provides. It continuously captures gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources. The Kinesis service’s front-end handles authentication, throttling, and distributes workloads to its back-end “workhorse” cluster via a database mechanism called sharding. On November 25th, 2020, the Amazon Kinesis service was disrupted in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) region, affecting thousands of other third-party services. The failure was significant enough to take out a large portion of the internet services.

Sequence of events

• According to Amazon, the event was triggered by adding a small capacity to the AWS front-end fleet of servers scheduled from 2:44 AM PST to 3:47 AM PST.

• To further dig down the failure, it was ...