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AWS CloudFront outage knocks websites worldwide offline as 5xx errors spread
AWS CloudFront suffered a 3.5-hour outage affecting VPC Origins connectivity, causing 5xx errors across thousands of websites including HuggingFace, the UK National Lottery, and Tailscale. The root cause was a packet processing subsystem failure preventing edge locations from routing requests to customer VPCs.
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The Wire takeaway
If your infrastructure depends on AWS CloudFront with VPC Origins, you just watched your entire customer-facing availability vanish because of a single routing subsystem bug in one vendor's network. The real cost isn't the three hours—it's that you have no redundancy against the vendor you chose for convenience.
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Topics: Cloud Infrastructure · aws-outage · cloudfront · vpc-origins · cloud-infrastructure · dependency-risk