Could be something, could be nothing, but today we were unable to submit any financial information to any of the major banks networks.
Small credit unions and local institutions seem to be operating fine, but all of the major banks we work with had their systems offline today.
Amazon's web services crashed apparently
Many of these institutions don't rely on AWS for this type of activity, it's more broad than just AWS
I was at walmart for an hour today just trying to return something.
They straight up shut off the lights in the customer service dept because they couldn't get the system to process any refunds. After them rebooting their system a couple times, I said screw it and left
Could just be the one walmart though.
It boggles my mind anyone on GAW can even walk into a Choynese Walmart.
Unfortunately, its the only place around that won't charge you an arm and a leg to replace a watch battery. And their clothes are 30-40% cheaper than, say, Kohls or Meijers.
But I hate it too. The one that was closest to my old house was like a mall in and of itself. This one? It doesn't even have ice cream. Blehhh I'm ordering everything online now anyway since everything is out of stock in-store.
Yep! Amazon makes the majority of their money from AWS. Banks, governments (particularly US military and alphabets) etc.
And it isn't cheap. I was running my project's devsecops pipeline on AWS Govcloud, and for basically 11 servers and a handful of workstations, it was $5k/month. I could have bought all those assets for that price and saved my program so much money, but the Government is run by morons and we HAD to use AWS. The Government is paying the bill, but effing morons.