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You thought Monday’s internet outage was bad? Just wait

Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage — and the global disruption it caused — underscored just how reliant the internet has become on a small number of core infrastructure providers.

Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite and more go down in huge Amazon internet outage: Latest updates

Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite and more go down in huge Amazon internet outage: Latest updates - DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

An AWS failure took down the internet Monday morning - and the aftershocks continue

Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Dozens of sites and apps went dark this morning. Here's why.

The AWS outage shows that when the internet breaks, we’re more vulnerable than ever

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.

The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem

What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail. U.K. banks and government tech systems going down. University students in Australia struggling to complete their coursework.
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