Amazon's storage services are a central platform on the internet, and many websites and applications are hosted on these servers. When there is a malfunction in Amazon's servers, the effect is felt on many popular websites. When Amazon sneezes, a large part of the internet catches a cold...
Yesterday, there was a malfunction in AWS, the company's cloud services, and thousands of reports of various internet services being unavailable flooded websites such as DownDetector. The reports came from all over the world - from Europe to Asia to the US.
Among the sites affected were Amazon itself, Facebook, Disney Plus, and others. Netflix's streaming services were also affected by the outage. In addition, Amazon services such as Alexa, Ring (doorbell), and Amazon Prime were not working properly. The outage lasted for hours, and Amazon finally fixed the problem. According to the company, the problem was concentrated in storage servers in the eastern United States.
Website storage service failures can happen anywhere and to any company, even the largest and best. When it comes to a quality hosting company with good service, the malfunction will be fixed quickly and the downtime of the websites will be minimized. A good hosting company is also measured by its transparency - if it reports malfunctions to customers in a timely manner and updates them on the repair schedule, then it is a company that can be trusted.
In any case, we always recommend making sure you have up-to-date backups of all parts of the website, so that you can quickly restore the website if the malfunction has damaged the website files. In addition, it is recommended to update your customers through other channels (such as Facebook or Twitter) that you are experiencing a problem with the website and that it will be fixed soon. If your hosting company has extensive problems on a regular basis, it is worth switching to a new host.