Nick Kephart

There was quite a bit of chaos on the Internet today, including major fiber cuts in California. To add to this confusion, between 5:24pm and around 6:10pm Pacific on June 30th, social media and outage reports indicated some issues with Amazon, AWS and a variety of services that run on AWS. In our office, we realized HipChat (our internal messaging system) and Okta (our SSO provider) were not working. And neither was our corporate website, which is hosted on AWS EC2 and fronted by AWS CloudFront.

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