On Oct. 20, a routine update at Amazon Web Services, one of the world’s largest providers of virtual computer services, exposed an existing software flaw within the systems and temporarily broke much ...

Relying on the cloud or internet can mean accepting some major headaches, but enterprises have survived outages in the past and are willing to bet they can survive them in the future. Let’s face it, ...

The internet is a global network of servers that moves and stores data using hardware, software, and protocols. Wi-Fi is a local wireless network that distributes the internet signal to devices in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When cloud game streaming came onto the scene, it was a revelation. Instead of having to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on your own ...

Last Thursday, a massive internet outage took down vast swaths of the online world, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, ...

There are some things that are better without the cloud.

In perhaps unsurprising news, Cloudflare confirmed cloud failover mainly defined the last quarter in outages, as the web giant released its latest Internet Disruption Summary. Cloudflare has since ...

When a major cloud provider stumbles, the impact now ripples across banking, media, logistics, and even basic communication in a matter of minutes. What looks like “the internet crashing” is usually a ...

Why the internet kept breaking and taking down your favorite sites in 2025 ...