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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.
It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.
Services disrupted included major retailers, airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more. Amazon said its systems have recovered.
The outage with Amazon Web Services shows how connected our companies are to each other with cloud-based services. Several were out of commission during the outage.
An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.