DIGITAL BLACKOUT: One Server Farm in Oregon Just Shut Down Payments for Half the Country

At 6:40 this morning Eastern, people started tapping their phones at the register and nothing happened. Apple Pay was down. DoorDash was down. Reddit, Hulu, PlayStation, all of it, gone. Not because those companies did anything wrong. Because a single Amazon Web Services region in Oregon coughed. AWS didn’t officially admit anything until 4:40 a.m. Pacific, which is 7:40 Eastern, a full hour after Downdetector lit up. They called it resolved shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern. Two hours and twenty minutes, give or take. And most people are going to read that number and think it means everything’s fine. What Actually Broke The Internet This Time The failure hit AWS’s US-West-2 region in Oregon. Amazon started by...

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