What we know about Amazon's AWS outage and why it was such a big deal

Millions of apps, websites and services rely on AWS, one of the world's largest cloud computing platforms. Here's what we ...
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What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.
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Amazon Web Services outage affects access to Canvas for students, professors

For most of Monday, students and faculty were unable to use any of the aforementioned sites, affecting many classes, especially through the Canvas outage. Ari Faulkner ’28, who was scheduled to take ...

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, ...