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AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

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The Amazon Web Services outage that took down half the internet, explained
FOX 10 Phoenix · 1h
Amazon Web Services global outage 'resolved' after disruption, company says
Massive Amazon Cloud Outage Has Been Resolved After Disrupting Internet Use Worldwide
Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online service...

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Las Vegas Sun · 15h
Mass reliance on Amazon leaves internet-dependent services vulnerable
An Amazon Outage Nearly Took Out The Whole Internet. Here’s Just How Big It Was.
Amazon web services return to 'normal operations' after mass outage, tech giant says
People have reported being unable to log in to their online and mobile banking apps, and there are also reports on social media that some people have had card payments declined – although the BBC has ...

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Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours
AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet

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.

Major online outages reported: What is AWS and how did the issue knock out so many websites?

A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

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

Amazon's AWS nears recovery after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

By Greg Bensinger, Shubham Kalia and Deborah Mary Sophia SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Monday that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites,

Amazon’s global outage exposes major vulnerabilities to American life

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