AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing another outage after a CloudFront issue began throwing 5xx errors, knocking a string of websites and online services offline across multiple regions.
According to AWS, the issue began at 0145 PDT (0945 UTC) this morning and affects CloudFront customers using VPC Origins. This is a relatively new CloudFront feature that lets customers serve applications running behind private load balancers through CloudFront without exposing their back-end infrastructure to the public internet.
The cloud giant said customers using other origin types are not impacted, and suggested that anyone who doesn't strictly need VPC Origins could switch origin types as a temporary workaround while engineers work on a fix.
“We are experiencing increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity,” the cloud giant said on its...
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