Major websites went down on a particular day and failed to operate. This has indeed been a major slowdown and outage in services and cannot be side-tracked.
Major website and internet service hosting platform Cloudflare did experience an outage on Tuesday, thus causing outages for sites as well as services that are hosted on the platform. Cloudflare is aware of the outage and efforts are on to resolve it. In fact, one cannot overlook the fact that major websites are down due to a hosting-platform outage service has been partially restored and focus is on working towards restoring global service.
Cloudflare is no doubt experiencing issues and is an internet-hosting platform that many internet services do rely on to remain functioning and protected in the case of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
This is quite evident based upon the website-hosting platform itself and hundreds of tweets from frustrated social media users and this has shown how major websites are down due to a hosting-platform outage.
Cloudflare happens to be an internet-hosting platform that many internet services do rely on to remain functioning and protected in the case of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. An outage from Cloudflare does affect internet services globally.
Cloudflare is indeed partially restored, and the company is rather working to restore services globally.
Based upon Down Detector as well as reports on Twitter, websites and services do indeed experience outages around the time of the Cloudflare outage do include: Discord, Sirius XM, Network Solutions, Shopify, Zendesk, Coinbase, Canva, Soundcloud, Sling TV, Wattpad, TransferWise, Robin Hood, Medium, BuzzFeed, Streamlabs, Concur, Pinterest, and Dropbox. Some of the outages of these sites and services may not be actually linked to the Cloudflare outage.
On 28 February, several websites did fail to function optimally. While many may have cursed their service providers for the slowdown, the websites do claim someone else was to blame.
It was learned that Amazon’s S3, a web-based storage service, did face problems, thus causing an internet shutdown of sorts in the east coast of the United States. This highlights major websites are down due to a hosting-platform outage. Subsequently, prominent websites such as Quora, Imgur, Slack, Yahoo! Mail and Medium do go offline and did not load images or even ran slow. Amazon, in fact, could not even update its website’s status dashboard: its red colored warning icons were non-functional as they were rather hosted on the side of the cloud that had in fact stopped operating.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) does host images for many websites, in addition to entire websites. The ‘cloud’ is indeed made up of thousands of powerful computer servers that are being stored by Amazon and other players in massive server farms. The companies did, in fact, build up and also maintain these farms so that smaller players do not have to invest in this infrastructure.
Amazon does, in fact, enjoy the distinction of being one of the best providers of cloud services, a shutdown did result in the slowing down of a significant section of the internet. Amazon did refuse to acknowledge the shutdown as an outage and also instead called it “high-error rate”. Ironically, outage-monitoring websites Down Detector and downrightnow.com were also offline. An outage does, in fact, refer to the period when an “entire system” tends to fail to provide or perform its primary function. On the other hand, a high-error rate does indicate the repeated failure of a specific component of a system. As far as Amazon is concerned, despite denial, the entire system does fail.
Amazon has indeed rather revealed no clear reason for the five-hour disruption of services, though their tweet does confirm they have in fact identified the issue. Ironically, even the status does also indicate with regard to AWS service status page rely on S3 for the storage of its health marker graphics, and this also happens to be the reason why AWS has stated that all services were “working” despite contrary evidence.
Amazon has managed to provide an update about the issue to its users on Twitter.
