Amazon, cloud computing and AWS outage
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An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald's app.
Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games. About three hours after the outage began,
What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.
The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.
An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`
A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.