International
Early Monday morning, Amazon’s widespread cloud computing service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced severe issues, resulting in a loss of service for banks, airlines, media, and delivery systems across the globe.
DynamoDB, a cloud-hosted database offered by AWS, became unreachable for several hours due to a problem with the Domain Name System (DNS), a sort of phone book for the internet. The data was stored safely, but could not be reached without the DNS.
“Amazon had the data safely stored,” Mike Chapple at the University of Notre Dame told CNN, “but nobody else could find it for several hours, leaving apps temporarily separated from their data. It’s as if large portions of the internet suffered temporary amnesia.”
Feng Li, a professor at Bayes Business School at City Saint George’s University in London said the event shone a light on a weakness in today’s infrastructure.
“Amazon Web Services’ outage is a timely reminder of how deeply our economies now depend on just a handful of cloud infrastructures,” Li said. “Complex distributed systems operate at enormous scale and inevitably carry systemic risk. What stands out here though is the breadth of impact — from consumer apps to financial and public sector services — suggesting many organizations still underestimate the level of concentration risk in today’s digital infrastructure.”
The outage only lasted a few hours, being resolved by 5:35 a.m. CT.
National
A line cook accused of stealing secret recipes from a Venezuelan restaurant in Doral, Florida was arrested Tuesday after confessing to the theft.
Mordisco Miami, a local restaurant specializing in “Venezuelan-style steaks, appetizers and handmade arepas,” contacted police Oct. 20, reporting three cookbooks had been stolen.
In-kitchen surveillance cameras caught Carlos Fransico Gottberg Marquez, a 50-year-old employee, taking two of the books Oct. 12 and a third on Oct. 19.
Police arrested Marquez Oct. 21 at his second job at Shoma Bazaar food hall.
When authorities told him the reason for his arrest, he said, “It’s in my bike,” in Spanish. Marquez then produced one of the books from his moped.
Marquez was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and charged with theft of trade secrets.
A judge has granted him pre-trial release or an alternate bond of $2,500, and he has been ordered to stay away from the business.
In Florida, theft of trade secrets is considered a second- or third-degree felony and can come with up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Local
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has notified Oklahoma Human Services a suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is coming Nov. 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown.
14% of Oklahoma households are considered food-insecure with one in every six residents relying on SNAP for food according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. One third of Oklahoma SNAP recipients are children.
In 2022, SNAP was used by 255,000 food-insecure children, 70,000 disabled adults and 68,000 elderly individuals, providing an average of $97 million of support to families per year.
Jeff Marlow, president and CEO of the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, said his company is preparing to provide as much support as possible.
“The Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is deeply concerned about the impact the government shutdown will have on families who rely on food assistance,” Marlow told Fox 23. “With federal funding for SNAP ending November 1, we are preparing with our partners to meet the rising need and asking the community to help ensure no one in Eastern Oklahoma goes hungry.”
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