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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud
Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.
Services disrupted included major retailers, airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more. Amazon said its systems have recovered.
According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.
Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?
"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."