Because they shut down a part of their service creating a hole in the other part?
Good. If that is the case it just illustrates how shit AWS security is and provides another reason not to use it!
no, that cannot be right, for the dns to work with a local balancer on amazon it must still be active, that cannot be it. either they had dns entries for their background servers that were not on AWS so they were still up and the "hackers" discovered that and that would happened just the same if they had just copied the DNS zone before it was shut down or they changed the entries when it was shut down and then it is their own fault, maybe to put a error message page up.
In any case, it is not the fault of amazon and it is not deliberate.
The backup servers were registered with Amazon, and were not Amazon servers. So, when Amazon took down the Amazon-servers, Amazon automatically routed people to the backup servers. Otherwise, no one would ever have known who those servers were.
Essentially, Amazon told everyone trying to connect to Parler, who the backups were. It wouldn't have told them before the Amazon-servers were down. And it shouldn't have told them ANYTHING after, but unfortunately, it did.
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