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According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.
Amazon, the nation's second-largest employer, has big plans to slow human hiring and speed up robotic automation.
It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.
Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.
The outage with Amazon Web Services shows how connected our companies are to each other with cloud-based services. Several were out of commission during the outage.