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When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras.

Amazon's data center in Ashburn, Va. (Ted Shaffrey/AP) Amazon says Amazon Web Services, its cloud computer service that powers many of the internet’s most popular apps and websites, has fully ...

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. Researchers reflecting ...

Amazon Web Services’ outage was caused by a DNS error Websites were down for 70 minutes, a full recovery took hours Big customers like Netflix, Spotify and Slack ...

A significant AWS outage on Monday, October 20, disrupted services for major companies like McDonald's, Microsoft Office 365, and Apple Music. The disruption stemmed from DNS issues affecting Amazon's ...

More than 1,000 people were reporting connectivity issues with Amazon Web Services Tuesday morning after a day of outages plagued thousands of popular apps and websites across the internet. An AWS ...

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...

A small glitch served as a big wake-up call for the cloud world. For what felt like forever on Monday, Oct. 21, the internet’s pulse flatlined. Food-delivery apps froze, Fortnite gamers got booted mid ...

A major AWS outage disrupted global websites, apps, and services. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure in AWS's US-East-1 region. In the latest update, Amazon said the AWS outage was resolved. Amazon ...

Amazon says Amazon Web Services, a cloud computer service that powers many of the internet’s most popular apps and websites, has fully recovered from a major outage that disrupted online activity ...

among thousands of sites, including some of the web’s most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit. Still, Amazon said some AWS services had a backlog of messages that would take a few hours to process.