AWS, Amazon and The outage
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Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps - Snapchat and Reddit - and disrupted businesses globally.
Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.
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AWS outage originated at Northern Virginia data center
Amazon Web Services was offline early Monday morning, the outage affecting multiple websites and apps on Monday.
AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.
Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?
Amazon's AWS is back and so are websites around the world. But the outage points to a key weakness in the modern internet.