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What to know about how a massive Amazon cloud outage exposed the internet's vulnerable backbone
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system.

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An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change
What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage that wreaked global havoc
Amazon working to restore cloud services unit AWS after massive outage hits major apps, websites
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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Amazon’s AWS struggles to recover after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide
Amazon's AWS recovering from global outage
Amazon Web Services returning after global Internet outage
At the peak of the incident, early Monday, AWS reported more than 70 of its own services were impacted before saying it had resolved the issue, although it warned of sluggishness as systems worked ove...

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Amazon says systems are back online after global internet outage
Amazon Web Services outage hits several major apps, websites
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Servers, software and data: how the cloud powers the web

The outage that hit the world's leading cloud provider Amazon Web Services on Monday has highlighted global reliance on the technology, which offers businesses on-demand IT resources without heavy inv

AWS outage temporarily takes down Snapchat, Venmo, and other major sites

Disruptions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing services Monday morning caused outages for several websites, including Snapchat and Venmo.
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