A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time
data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage
last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the
weekend. The addition “caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed
the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system
configuration,” the post said, describing a cascade of resulting problems
that took down thousands of sites and services. The outage impacted
online services from big tech companies such as Adobe, Roku, Twilio,
Flickr, Autodesk, and others, including New York Citys Metropolitan
Transit Authority. The Washington Post, which is… Read More
A past AWS re:Invent conference. (GeekWire Photo) …
