How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers ...

Amazon's AWS struggles to recover after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of ...

Smart beds leave sleepers hot and bothered during AWS outage

Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from ...

A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The ...
Technical.ly

What is US-East-1? Why AWS Northern Virginia server issues took down half the internet

How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.

From Amazon to Roblox, how the AWS outage wrecked the internet

On October 20, an AWS outage caused widespread disruption to websites and apps, highlighting the reliance on cloud services ...
TechCrunch

AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2

At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced the launch of Arm-based servers for its EC2 cloud computing service. These aren’t run-of-the-mill Arm chips, though. AWS took the ...

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.