Wed. 12/08 – AWS Outage Is Why You Didn’t Get Your Package

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

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That AWS outage yesterday disrupted Amazon’s own delivery efforts. When we might see the AirPods Pro 2. More specific details on the Apple AR thingy. Ubisoft is the first major player to bring NFTs to games. And a look at the records being set in the African startup investment scene. Sponsors: WealthFront.com/techmeme FindYourFidelity.com Links: An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge) AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard) Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 With New Design and Improved Chip to Launch in Late 2022 (Macrumors) Kuo: Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024 With Lighter Design, Redesigned Battery System, and More (Macrumors) Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs (Decrypt) Roku, Google settle messy battle over YouTube distribution (Axios) Facebook's new website lets fans buy 'Stars' without paying the app stores' commissions (TechCrunch) African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Year (Bloomberg) Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, December 8th, 2021.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough today that AWS Outage Yesterday
0:10.6	disrupted Amazon's own delivery efforts.
0:13.3	When we might see the AirPods Pro 2, more specific details on the Apple AR thingy,
0:19.4	YubaS soft is the first major player to bring NFTs to gaming and a look at the records being
0:25.0	set in the African startup investment scene.
0:27.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:29.9	Again, we try to only cover service outages when there's something unique or meaningful about
0:38.0	the outage.
0:39.0	Elsewise, we'd be telling you about the downtime of some app or other every single day.
0:44.6	But there were a ton of apps that were down yesterday thanks to an AWS outage that
0:48.9	started around 1045 a.m. Eastern time, though Amazon now says the underlying issues that cause the
0:55.4	outage have been resolved, quoting the verge. There have been reports of
0:59.1	outages for Disney Plus and Netflix streaming, as well as games like P. U.B.G. League of Legends and
1:04.7	Valorrent. We also noticed some problems accessing Amazon.com and other
1:08.4	Amazon products like the Alexa AI assistant Kindle e-books Amazon music Music, and Security Cameras from Ring or Wies.
1:15.7	The Down detector list of services with simultaneous spikes in their Outage Reports runs off
1:20.1	nearly any recognizable name.
1:22.1	Tinder, Roku, Coinu, Koi-Aid,
1:23.7	both Cash App and Venmo and the list goes on.
1:26.9	There were reports from network admins everywhere
1:29.4	about errors connecting to Amazon's instances
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