Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

AWS outage update: What happened and why?

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem

What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.

How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

AWS outage resolved: Which companies were affected the most?

Everything from apps and website hosting to even your child's schoolwork portal were affected by Amazon's (AMZN) AWS outage on Monday. The company has since announced that the Amazon Web Services' cloud outage has been resolved.

From Amazon to Roblox, how the AWS outage wrecked the internet

AWS is the world’s largest cloud service for hosting websites. A third of all websites on the internet use it. Everything from Snapchat to AT&T to McDonald’s use AWS for their websites. Read More:
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