AWS restablece operaciones tras colapso de 10 horas que paralizó servicios globales

El gigante cloud se desploma - y arrastra medio internet consigo.

Caos en la nube

Diez horas de interrupción masiva dejaron a aplicaciones y servicios críticos fuera de servicio a nivel mundial. Amazon Web Services confirmó finalmente la restauración completa de sus sistemas tras uno de los blackouts más prolongados en la historia reciente de la infraestructura digital.

Cuando AWS estornuda, el internet se resfría - y los traders de Wall Street se desmayan.

El incidentre expuso la frágil dependencia del ecosistema digital hacia un puñado de proveedores cloud. Mientras las acciones tecnológicas tambaleaban, los mineros de Bitcoin seguían validando transacciones sin inmutarse - porque la blockchain nunca duerme, incluso cuando AWS sí lo hace.

AWS brings down apps, banks, and airlines worldwide

Venmo, Zoom, and hundreds of other services were still glitching hours after AWS said things were normal again. In Britain, major institutions like Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, and Vodafone were hit. Even the country’s tax authority, HMRC, went offline. Over 4 million users filed outage reports, according to Downdetector.

Gaming apps got crushed, with Fortnite, Clash Royale, and Clash of Clans all going dark. Crypto platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood also went offline. AI startup Perplexity confirmed it couldn’t keep services up during the outage. Amazon’s own Prime Video, Alexa, and its main shopping website were also down.

Meanwhile, Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, posted on X that the secure chat app went down. Elon Musk, who owns X, claimed his platform stayed online.

AWS leads the global cloud market ahead of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, but it has now shown once again just how fragile that dominance can be. One monitor fails, and the entire world feels it.

Ken Birman, computer science professor at Cornell University, said devs need to stop cutting corners. “When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn’t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,” he told Reuters. He said AWS already provides tools to protect apps, but companies often ignore them.

Jake Moore, a cybersecurity advisor at ESET, said the outage showed the problem with putting everything in the hands of a few cloud providers. Nishanth Sastry, head of research at University of Surrey’s Computer Science Department, said the mistake many firms made was relying on just one provider. Businesses need redundancy, not blind loyalty.

Ryan Griffin, cyber practice leader at McGill and Partners, said the cost of downtime isn’t just user frustration. “For major businesses, hours of cloud downtime translate to millions in lost productivity and revenue,” he said.

Even with all the disruption, Wall Street shrugged. Amazon stock has surged by 1.6%, about to end the day at $220, its highest point in 3 months.

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