Tag Archives: AWS

Amazon Web Service outage brought half of the Internet down

Posted on 2025-10-20 by guenni

[German]On October 20, 2025, an outage of Amazon Web Service servers in Virginia (USA) killed nearly half of the web, due to a single point of failure. I got informed by a German reader at 9:30 a.m. CET about an … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud, issue | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Broadcom leaks email-addresses from VMware administrators; AWS is out as a VMware customer, relief for cloud customers

Posted on 2024-05-10 by guenni

[German]Today we have a small collective article on Broadcom and VMware. Broadcom made a mistake and, as the company had to admit, they sent the e-mails of administrators at customer sites around the world for everyone to see. And at … Continue reading →

Posted in Virtualization | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Amazon AWS down (Nov. 25, 2020)

Posted on 2020-11-25 by guenni

[German]Currently, there is a worldwide disruption of Amazon Web Services (AWS), which affects the cloud and thus customers like Adobe. Here is a brief overview of what is known.

Posted in Cloud, issue | Tagged , | Leave a comment

AWS: Bring-Your-Own-License Experience für Microsoft Windows Server und SQL Server

Posted on 2019-12-04 by guenni

Amazon has just announced a change for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) in terms of hosting Microsoft's Windows Server and Windows SQL Server with its own licenses. Details may be read at A New, Simplified, Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud, Windows | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Cyber attac (DDoS) at Amazon AWS

Posted on 2019-10-24 by guenni

[German]Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the target of a distributed DDoS attack on August 23, 2019. Websites and apps were unavailable and customers were affected.

Posted in Cloud, issue | Tagged , , | 1 Comment