Amazon EC2 on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/amazon-ec2/Recent content in Amazon EC2 on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:32:44 +0000GitHub's 7-Hour Outage Exposed a Capacity Crisis; Plus AWS Turns 20https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-devops/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:32:44 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-devops/GitHub&rsquo;s 7 hour 47 minute outage on August 17 has been fully explained: record traffic hit a Central US data center component that failed to scale, knocking out authentication, Actions, Copilot, and more. The platform has since added over 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of storage, while migrating aggressively to Azure, which now carries 58% of load. AWS EC2, meanwhile, turned 20 years old this week, having grown from a single instance type in one region to over 1,200 types across 39 regions, powered now by its own custom silicon. DigitalOcean disclosed how it patched two hypervisor vulnerabilities — Januscape and AMD Safe RET — across its entire fleet with zero confirmed customer impact, an operation that took 45 minutes to build a livepatch and 48 hours to deploy.