AWS chief Andy Jassy (Photo: GeekWire)
AWS chief Andy Jassy (File photo: GeekWire)

Some Amazon Web Services customers were affected by Friday’s massive DDoS internet attacks, AWS chief Andy Jassy acknowledged today during the Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive2016 technology conference.

The attacks targeted Dynamic Network Services Inc., better known as Dyn, and Dyn “is among several providers of domain-name services” (DNS) to AWS, the Journal reported. Shortly after the attacks started Friday morning, AWS discontinued its use of Dyn’s DNS services and rerouted traffic to other providers, restoring full service, according to the report. DNS translates the plain-English names of websites into the numbers used by computers that route internet traffic.

The extent to which any public cloud companies, or their customers, were affected by the attacks hadn’t been clear.

Despite that vulnerability, Jassy stressed that cloud computing is secure. Security is “Priority Zero,” he said. “You can’t pass Go without it.” And public-clouds’ security is assured, he said, “given their investment and the number of people and the number of investments they’ve made.”

Security may be  critical, but “agility is the single biggest reason enterprise are moving to the cloud,” Jassy said.

IBM Platform-as-a-Service customers were also affected by the attack, according to Data Center Knowledge.

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