Senior Forums Really Slow?

Just showed up on Yahoo News:
Breaking News: Major outage impacts much of the internet
 

MACKTEXAS said:
I think there are 2 threads (last I noticed)
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Kaila said:
I only found this thread, though. 🤔
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MACKTEXAS said:
My mistake, sorry
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Not that it matters very much, but actually, there are 2 threads. As slow as everything was yesterday, I was having trouble finding both of them.

Here they are:
Is anyone having problems with this site now? (link to OP)

Senior Forums Really Slow? (link to OP)

Whatever . . . as of right now site is fast, thankfully.
 
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AWS (Amazon Web services) was the culprit. Amazon isn’t just a seller of goods. It also provides extensive web services to large companies, some of whom then provide internet to the consumer.

Some of the larger companies impacted were Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, Xfinity, Amazon prime, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rainbow Six Siege, Coinbase, Goodreads, Ring, The New York Times, Life360, Fortnite, Apple TV, Verizon, Chime, McDonald’s App, and a host of others, many of which affected sites like SF.

Initially it was thought to be a major hack, but apparently it turned out to be some kind of internal software glitch.

The problem was thought to be fixed, but then it went down again, so there were more massive problem solving efforts which stabilized AWS which then fixed consumer issuers, hopefully permanently.
 
debodun said:
Last evening my cable and all it's services (Internet, phone and TV) had an outage four about an hour. No explanation - maybe sunspots?
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Interesting theory, Deb. I watched some news stories yesterday about a major plasma storm on the sun that's expected to cause various problems for a few days, including natural ones like wild weather, earthquakes, volcanic activity and stuff.
 
Ronni said:
AWS (Amazon Web services) was the culprit. Amazon isn’t just a seller of goods. It also provides extensive web services to large companies, some of whom then provide internet to the consumer.

Some of the larger companies impacted were Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, Xfinity, Amazon prime, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rainbow Six Siege, Coinbase, Goodreads, Ring, The New York Times, Life360, Fortnite, Apple TV, Verizon, Chime, McDonald’s App, and a host of others, many of which affected sites like SF.

Initially it was thought to be a major hack, but apparently it turned out to be some kind of internal software glitch.

The problem was thought to be fixed, but then it went down again, so there were more massive problem solving efforts which stabilized AWS which then fixed consumer issuers, hopefully permanently.
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I think it affected Paramount plus too cuz I was having issues with it as well.
 
Whatever caused it, it caused @Matrix a big headache, he battled this alone for days thinking it was a problem here, whereas it's possible it wasn't, and it was caused by much larger external Internet worldwide issues .... .. and I want to personally thank him for doing everything he does and all the time he gives to this forum..to provide us all a platform for discussion, which for many of us is our only means of communciation to the outside world...

Thank you....
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Amazon employees said they were left in the dark during a massive outage, fueling claims the tech giant tested a so-called 'kill switch.'

One staff member made the claim three hours after Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, which caused widespread disruptions across social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.

The employee said in the video posted to TikTok: 'They don't have any information for us.... I believe in the kill switch. They are just trying to test it out, and it works.'
Another staffer can be heard in the background adding: 'They're cleansing it right now, from everything.'

Typically, when Amazon systems crash, employees are offered Voluntary Time Off (VTO) to go home. One worker suggested that communication may have been limited because the company's systems were also offline.

The 'kill switch' mentioned in the video likely refers to a conspiracy theory claiming that AWS has a secret mechanism to intentionally shut down online infrastructure for control or censorship.

However, the company cited an 'operational issue' affecting multiple services and said it was 'working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.'

The outage began around 3.11am ET, prompting AWS to investigate higher error rates and slower response times in its US-EAST-1 region, the company's oldest and largest data hub. All services returned to normal by 6pm.
The TikTok video has since gone viral on X, where many users agreed that the tech giant activated a kill switch.

'If they actually have a kill switch and just tested it on their entire workforce, that is genuinely terrifying,' one user posted.

However, another user posted on X: 'An outage like this is the worst possible scenario for the company.

'The internal systems that provide status updates and VTO were also out. There’s no reason for a company to do this on purpose. Would be lighting a building on fire to see if smoke alarms work.'

DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, said in a Facebook post that it received more than 11 million user reports of issues at more than 2,500 companies.
 
Ronni said:
AWS (Amazon Web services) was the culprit. Amazon isn’t just a seller of goods. It also provides extensive web services to large companies, some of whom then provide internet to the consumer.

Some of the larger companies impacted were Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, Xfinity, Amazon prime, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rainbow Six Siege, Coinbase, Goodreads, Ring, The New York Times, Life360, Fortnite, Apple TV, Verizon, Chime, McDonald’s App, and a host of others, many of which affected sites like SF.

Initially it was thought to be a major hack, but apparently it turned out to be some kind of internal software glitch.

The problem was thought to be fixed, but then it went down again, so there were more massive problem solving efforts which stabilized AWS which then fixed consumer issuers, hopefully permanently.
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Yes, my Sling app is out, I originally installed it from Amazon Apps. I've been on the phone and texting for 2 days trying to get it restored with no luck. The error message said something about a 'location error'... I finally gave up and canceled Sling. I'll get my news fix somewhere else. Sling was no help at all, could not talk to a person and the 'chat help' was worthless.
 
I didn't have any problems online or with my apps, even on my Roku, while all this was going on. I didn't visit the forum though. Now I'm glad I didn't; I would have been frustrated.
 

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