I agree, AWS (and Amazon Alexa + Ring) seem to be skirting and/or choosing active silence on that "Lambda" outage that took out us-east-1. Alexa had at the very least two full scale outages this year, and Ring was successfully hacked as well.
Amazon's response: "looks like a Lambda... more later" then nothing, nothing, and "it must be a 3rd party skill."
AWS health page: GREEN.
AWS Post-event summaries: non-existent after 2021.
This is quite troubling when you consider what AWS holds in its coffers, along with the number of customers AWS currently has. No transparency, not even strategic transparency, is a definite red flag.
Wait, do you have more details about this? I see a Vice story[1] about a ransomware crew's claim that it hacked Ring, but it includes this:
> It is not clear what specific data ALPHV may have access to. In a statement, Ring told Motherboard "We currently have no indications that Ring has experienced a ransomware event." But the company added that it is aware of third-party vendor that has experienced a ransomware event, and that Ring is working with that company to learn more. Ring said this vendor does not have access to customer records.
There are similar stories with similar invitations for Ring employees to leak details, but the lack of updates usually indicates that the event isn't as juicy as the gang claimed.
Between the companies I've worked with and the incidents I've been through, I'd say AWS is well-known to be "very slow" at updating their status reports when something goes down.
Even had AWS liaisons tell us that things were definitely down even though the status page was completely green.
scrum-treats|2 years ago
I agree, AWS (and Amazon Alexa + Ring) seem to be skirting and/or choosing active silence on that "Lambda" outage that took out us-east-1. Alexa had at the very least two full scale outages this year, and Ring was successfully hacked as well.
Amazon's response: "looks like a Lambda... more later" then nothing, nothing, and "it must be a 3rd party skill."
AWS health page: GREEN.
AWS Post-event summaries: non-existent after 2021.
This is quite troubling when you consider what AWS holds in its coffers, along with the number of customers AWS currently has. No transparency, not even strategic transparency, is a definite red flag.
__derek__|2 years ago
Wait, do you have more details about this? I see a Vice story[1] about a ransomware crew's claim that it hacked Ring, but it includes this:
> It is not clear what specific data ALPHV may have access to. In a statement, Ring told Motherboard "We currently have no indications that Ring has experienced a ransomware event." But the company added that it is aware of third-party vendor that has experienced a ransomware event, and that Ring is working with that company to learn more. Ring said this vendor does not have access to customer records.
There are similar stories with similar invitations for Ring employees to leak details, but the lack of updates usually indicates that the event isn't as juicy as the gang claimed.
[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvd9q/ransomware-group-clai...
thrashh|2 years ago
Even had AWS liaisons tell us that things were definitely down even though the status page was completely green.