Why Did Amazon Web Services (AWS) Really Go Down? Here’s What We Know

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

The massive AWS outage that broke half the internet is finally over - here's what happened

Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Thousands of sites, apps, and services went dark Monday morning. Here's why.
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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.

What Led to AWS’s Global Outage, And What the Cloud Industry Must Learn From It

News: The recent AWS downtime exposed the internet’s fragile backbone, reminding enterprises that resilience, redundancy, and ...
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AWS Announces New API Gateway Service

Amazon Web Services announced a new product today called Amazon API Gateway, designed to simplify creation and management of APIs. Today, many companies want to give access to back-end services to ...

One AWS failure took down the internet Monday morning - what went wrong

Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Dozens of sites and apps went dark this morning. Here's why.
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How an AWS database hiccup froze the web

AWS DynamoDB/DNS fault in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread outages, disrupting apps, banks and public services while ...

AWS outage was not due to a cyberattack — but shows potential for ‘far worse’ damage

The outage serves as warning sign for a potentially more disruptive situation and reflects "tech monoculture" in a global ...