Early Monday, Amazon Web Services, the cloud backbone powering much of the internet, suffered a massive outage that lasted nearly 15 hours, disrupting hundreds of companies from Apple to McDonald’s, and even grounding parts of airline and finance operations.

The incident, which some analysts are calling Amazon’s worst outage since 2021, reminded the world of the perils of depending on a handful of cloud companies to deliver crucial computing and internet services.

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Web Services (AWS) faced a significant outage yesterday centered in its US-EAST-1 region, triggered by issues with DynamoDB database services and DNS resolution failures. This disruption rippled globally,

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered one of its largest disruptions in years, briefly taking down major apps like Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit. Despite the downtime, no

Coinbase acknowledged the impact of the AWS outage on its services. “Many online services, including Coinbase, experienced issues,” a spokesperson said in a statement to Fortune. “Coinbase services have recovered.

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An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

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