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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
Amazon Web Services outage finally resolved
Amazon Says AWS Cloud Service Back to Normal After Outage Disrupts Businesses Worldwide
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including...

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Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after global outage
Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours
Massive Amazon Cloud Outage Has Been Resolved After Disrupting Internet Use Worldwide
Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to their domain name system, an apparatus that converts web addresses into IP addresses so websites and apps can load on internet-connected devices.

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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal
Amazon Web Services global outage 'resolved' after disruption, company says

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

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'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,

An AWS outage impacted your favorite websites. It's now been resolved.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.

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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