Amazon's AWS struggles to recover after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps - Snapchat and Reddit - and disrupted businesses globally.

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

An outage at 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.

AWS failure knocks Coinbase, airlines and more offline amid widespread disruption

Amazon Web Services, the world’s biggest cloud infrastructure provider, suffered a major outage on Monday morning, disrupting operations for several companies, including AI firm Perplexity as well as trading platforms Coinbase and Robinhood.
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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
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IBM, AWS expand collaboration to align with UAE and Saudi Arabia national digital agendas

The collaboration is intended to give customers access to IBM software products delivered as SaaS on AWS cloud regions in UAE and KSA – simplifying procurement and deployment

What caused the AWS internet outage? What the experts have said

An outage at Amazon Web Services left popular apps including Fortnite, Snapchat, Perplexity and Amazon’s own Prime video down this morning.
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An AWS Outage Broke the Internet While You Were Sleeping, and the Troubles Continue

Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the 1,000-plus sites and services that were affected when Amazon Web Services went down, causing a major internet blackout.
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