Amazon Web Services has been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, resulting in an outage that affected many websites. The company Wednesday morning said it’s investigating reports of intermittent DNS resolution errors with Route 53 and its external DNS providers. The errors have since been resolved as of midday Wednesday. Customers took to Twitter to either inform their customers or express their displeasure with the outage. An AWS customer posted a response from AWS Support on Reddit, confirming the DDoS attack.”]
Source: https://www.crn.com.au/news/aws-hit-by-ddos-attack-dragging-half-of-web-down-532842