{"id":969492,"date":"2025-10-25T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969492"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:12:20","slug":"explained-the-basic-software-bug-that-caused-amazon-web-services-outage-bringing-half-the-internet-across-the-world-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/25\/explained-the-basic-software-bug-that-caused-amazon-web-services-outage-bringing-half-the-internet-across-the-world-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The &#8216;basic software bug&#8217; that caused Amazon Web Services outage, bringing half the internet across the world down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) \u2013 Amazon\u2019s cloud unit \u2013 has published a detailed explanation, pinpointing a bug in its automation software as the root cause of the hours-long outage this week that took down thousands of popular sites and apps. AWS confirmed that a cascading series of events was triggered by a basic software flaw in the system that manages its vast digital database.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the outage began when customers lost the ability to connect to DynamoDB, AWS&#8217;s core database system.This was due to a \u201clatent defect within the service\u2019s automated Domain Name System (DNS) management system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) \u2013 Amazon\u2019s cloud unit \u2013 has published a detailed explanation, pinpointing a bug in its automation software as the root cause of the hours-long outage this week that took down thousands of popular sites and apps. AWS confirmed that a cascading series of events was triggered by a basic software flaw in the system that manages its vast digital database. According to the company, the outage began when customers lost the ability to connect to DynamoDB, AWS&#8217;s core database system.This was due to a \u201clatent defect within the service\u2019s automated Domain Name System (DNS) management system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}