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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.

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 ...

Amazon explains exactly why its cloud server outage took down much of the internet

Some 2,000 companies were affected by the outage with more than 8 million people reporting issues. View on euronews ...

AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea

This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain Name System (DNS) ...

AWS Outage: Why is Canvas Down and When Will It Be Restored?

A widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has left Canvas, the learning management system used by the University of Kansas (KU), temporarily inaccessible, disrupting classes and assignments for ...
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Servers, software, data: AWS outage shows how cloud powers web

The outage that hit the world's leading cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), on Monday has once again demonstrated ...