Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

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.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday made global headlines after knocking some of the world's largest sites offline for hours. For users, the impacts ranged from the serious - such as not being able to access vital banking, government or work services - to the not-so-serious, such as fears of losing long built-up streaks on Duolingo.

Following the AWS outage, former FBI agent Eric O'Neill shares his take on the future of cybersecurity skills, certifications, and resilience in the workforce for 2026.

Vice President Bob Wambach of Dynatrace says global economy's dependence on cloud providers creates risk of systemic outages lasting hours or days.

Amazon also confirmed that the outage impacted Amazon.com, some of its subsidiaries and AWS customer support operations. "We are working to fully restore service as quickly as pos

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