Buongiorno, curioso che alcune notizie di "disservizi digitali" passino quasi inosservate mentre altre facciano molto rumore (a volte per nulla). https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/federal-reserve-interbank-payment... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Federal Reserve interbank payment system suffers outage, disrupting crucial piece of US economy Delaying hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions February 25, 2021 By Sebastian Moss "Our technical teams have determined that the cause is a Federal Reserve operational error," the Fed said in a statement. "We acknowledge that payment deadlines are impacted and will communicate remediation efforts to our customers when available. Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the issue.” The glitch is not thought to be due to a cyber attack. "Let's work together to ensure we have a faster, more reliable way to send payments," Senator Cynthia Lummis said [on Twitter]. Following the September 11 attacks, the Federal Reserve has taken a more active interest in maintaining the uptime of the financial system. In 2003, it created an undisclosed list of the biggest and most influential financial institutions, which it told to beef up their data center redundancy. The companies and organizations were told to ensure that primary and backup facilities were on different grid and water systems, and followed numerous other resiliency best practices. In 2019, with much of the financial sector moving to the cloud - and in particular, moving to one cloud vendor - [the Federal Reserve conducted a formal examination of an Amazon Web Services data center] in Virginia. The examination focused on Amazon’s resiliency and backup systems, and is thought to be the first of several visits to cloud facilities. A single outage, caused by software or hardware issues, can still cripple key parts of the US economy. In 2019, [a fire at a Wells Fargo data center] meant that customers could not access ATMs, or their online and mobile banking accounts. [on Twitter] <https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1364665835558760453> [the Federal Reserve conducted a formal examination of an Amazon Web Services data center] <https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-federal-reserve-conducted-form...> [a fire at a Wells Fargo data center] <https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/widespread-wells-fargo-outage-bla...> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Anche su: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/fed-outage-shuts-down-us-payment... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The Fed urged banks to double-check that any transactions they submitted in recent hours had actually gone through. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo