Friday, 24 March, 2023

AWS says addition of new servers led to massive outage

<p>AWS, while acknowledging the global outage, said that the addition of new servers to the network triggered the issue which affected websites and apps. The cloud computing firm denied earlier reports of the outage was driven by memory pressure. &quot;As this limit was being exceeded, cache construction was failing to complete and front-end servers were ending up with useless shard-maps that left them unable to route requests to back-end clusters,&quot; AWS said.</p>