ScyllaDB is the First to Bring Native Vector Search to the DynamoDB API

ScyllaDB today announced Vector Search for its DynamoDB-compatible API (Alternator). For the first time, developers building on the DynamoDB API can run high-performance vector similarity search ...
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A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across ...
InfoWorld

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...
Computer Weekly

ScyllaDB powers up Alternator: an open Amazon DynamoDB API

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Companies normally keep things pretty quiet in the run up to their annual user conferences, so they can pepper ...
ZDNet

Open source database ScyllaDB 4.0 promises Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB drop-in replacement

We first covered ScyllaDB on ZDNet back in 2017. Its story is one of deep tech, open source, and pivots. Started by Hypervisor and Linux Red Hat veterans Dor Laor and Avi Kivity, the database that ...
Tech.co

Why Did Amazon Web Services (AWS) Really Go Down? Here’s What We Know

Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down for several hours yesterday, affecting millions of users worldwide. The outage was the result of a failed update to the DynamoDB API, which stores user information ...
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It turns out that the cause of the large-scale AWS outage was a design flaw hidden in the 'DNS management system'

On October 20, 2025 (Japan time), a large-scale service outage occurred in the Amazon Web Services North Virginia (us-east-1) region, forcing web services and applications around the world to ...