An Amazon Outage Nearly Took Out The Whole Internet. Here’s Just How Big It Was.

The internet fell apart Monday due to outages at a single company: Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider that powers many of the most popular apps and services we use.

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.
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Major AWS Outage Resolved, Amazon Promises Detailed Breakdown

Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.

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.

Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

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.

Amazon may owe you money. Here's everything to know about the settlement

Amazon has agreed to pay a $2.5 billion settlement after coercing customers into subscriptions. Here's how to know if you are eligible for payments.

Amazon sees 'blind spot' in identifying new AI startups as future cloud customers

Amazon Web Services struggles to find AI solopreneurs and bootstrapped startups, highlighting a blind spot in its customer discovery process.
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