AWS down

scoobyjones1

all fine now. They switched it off and on again.

NormalNorman

So I couldn’t bank in the UK because of an American book shop, lol!

Bendo

NormalNorman said:

So I couldn’t bank in the UK because of an American book shop, lol!

You couldn't bank in the UK because your bank inexplicably is dependent on something in an American region of one of the worlds biggest hosting providers.

What a UK bank is doing that relies on AWS US-EAST-1 is beyond me, and slightly concerning.  Lloyds need to explain what they are doing and what data (if any) they are storing outside the EU. 

wmb194

Bendo said:

NormalNorman said:

So I couldn’t bank in the UK because of an American book shop, lol!

You couldn't bank in the UK because your bank inexplicably is dependent on something in an American region of one of the worlds biggest hosting providers.

What a UK bank is doing that relies on AWS US-EAST-1 is beyond me, and slightly concerning.  Lloyds need to explain what they are doing and what data (if any) they are storing outside the EU. 

Yes, it's quite illuminating. For resilience the general advice is to have at least two current accounts with separate banking groups but do we now need to modify that to also include two separate banking groups using separate cloud service providers?

I'm not sure how we'd work that out but whilst Lloyds was down I noticed that Chase and NatWest/RBS were still working so I guess they're not using AWS, or at least not AWS US East...