On Thursday, 25 May, we saw another BGP route leak, this time causing significant delays in connectivity from Australia to sites in the US including Amazon’s AWS services and Akamai’s content distribution network (CDN). People across Australia were either unable to access or experienced severe delays reaching some sites and services, and companies operating in affected data centers were seriously impacted in their ability to do business.
This route leak lasted about three hours, and highlights the importance of implementing MANRS recommendations and continually working to improve routing security. In this post, we’re going to do a technical deep dive into this incident, but the bottom line is that continuously improving routing security is critical.
VIA MANRS Blog