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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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What is Amazon Web Services? Learn about the cloud platform at the center of Monday's internet issues
Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage
Amazon says AWS outage ‘fully mitigated’ after major global disruption hits Snapchat, Venmo, Reddit | 10 updates
Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), suffered a major global outage on Monday, affecting a wide range of online platforms from social media and gaming to streaming and financial ap...

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AWS down: Check full list of websites and apps affected by Amazon Cloud outage on October 20
Amazon's AWS recovering after major outage disrupts services worldwide
Canva down as AWS disruption hits major online services
This region hosts a significant portion of cloud infrastructure used by global tech companies, including Canva.

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Amazon services 'recovering' as Snapchat and banks among sites hit by outage
Amazon's AWS recovering after major outage disrupts global apps and services

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

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.

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."

What caused worldwide internet outage that wiped out thousands of sites and apps

An internet outage caused numerous apps and websites, like Snapchat and Roblox, to not work, with the issue being with Amazon Web Service.
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