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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud
The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and under...

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Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts McDonald’s app, Snapchat and many other online services
Amazon cloud computing problem knocks out Snapchat, Ring, Fortnite; most services back to normal
Amazon Says AWS Cloud Service Back to Normal After Outage Disrupts Businesses Worldwide
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including...

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An Amazon Outage Nearly Took Out The Whole Internet. Here’s Just How Big It Was.
Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet
Massive Amazon Cloud Outage Has Been Resolved After Disrupting Internet Use Worldwide
Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to their domain name system, an apparatus that converts web addresses into IP addresses so websites and apps can load on internet-connected devices.

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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal
What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage

What Is Amazon Web Services?

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Amazon web outage takes down sites around the world

A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service crashed large swaths of the internet Monday, including government sites, social media, gaming, streaming, universities, financial platforms

Is Amazon still delivering packages during the AWS outage?

Since the AWS outage affected some of Amazon's own services, you might be wondering if the outage extended to physical package deliveries. Likewise, as the outage continued on Mon
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