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.

What to know about the global outage tied to Amazon Web Services

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for
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Amazon Web Services global outage 'resolved' after disruption, company says

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

At about 4:30PM ET on October 20, things seemed to be returning back to normal. Apps like Venmo and Lyft, which were either slow to respond or completely nonresponsive before, were appearing to behave smoothly.

Amazon web services return to 'normal operations' after mass outage, tech giant says

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

AWS outage caused smart beds to overheat, get stuck upright

The Amazon Web Services that affected apps and sites from Reddit to Roblox also caused some smart beds to overheat -- and some mattresses were stuck upright.
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