AWS outage has far reaching impact
If you were hiding under a rock yesterday you missed this story – AWS (Amazon Web Services) had a serious outages from 11 a.m to almost 6:30 p.m. yesterday, as if supply chain issues weren’t already bad enough.
Among the services that reported issues as a result of the outage were Disney’s streaming subscription service, Disney+, Netflix, Slack, Ticketmaster, stock trading app Robinhood, and Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S.
The outage also brought down critical tools used inside Amazon. Warehouse and delivery workers, along with drivers for Amazon’s Flex service, reported on Reddit that they couldn’t access the Flex app or the AtoZ app, making it impossible to scan packages or access delivery routes.
Kantar Releases PoweRanking® 2021: A Generation of Transformation
Kantar’s annual industry benchmarking report PoweRanking 2021 identifies retailers and suppliers that set the standard of performance, ranked by their trading partners. They provided a sneak peek into the report below. Interesting changes, Target and Kroger swap places and Apple and KraftHeinz enter the top 5!
U.S. – U.K. Joint Statement on Deepening the Data Partnership
Today, the United States Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo and the U.K. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Nadine Dorries issued a statement on their governments’ shared commitment to deepening the UK-U.S. data partnership to “realize a more peaceful and prosperous future by promoting the trustworthy use and exchange of data across borders”. While this isn’t entirely retail related the fact that ‘data is the new oil’ and with the increases in data breaches and cyber attacks governments are getting more deeply involved themselves as well as across boarders it is something we all need to be aware of.
“The challenges facing cross-border data flows are increasingly global and require solutions that work across multiple jurisdictions. We recognize the negative trends that risk closing off international data flows. In response, we seek to shape a global data ecosystem in a manner that promotes and advances interoperability between different data protection frameworks, facilitating cross-border data flows while maintaining high standards of data protection and trust. We are committed to open and inclusive engagement with international partners, industry, civil society, and consumer and privacy rights groups."
And in an ironic twist of fate, Professor Scott Galloway – one of Amazon’s loudest critics planned on sharing “Predictions 2022” but had to reschedule, after an audience of 4000+ people waited for over 17 minutes, due to the AWS issue. I was really looking forward to the presentation but had to chuckle when we learned the issue was AWS – somewhere Bezos is laughing…
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