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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud
Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
Amazon’s cloud computer service is recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world for several hours on Monday.