An AWS outage impacted your favorite websites. It's now been resolved.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.

Here’s who has been impacted by the AWS outage

Scores of popular online platforms experienced problems Monday as Amazon Web Services (AWS) grappled with an outage.

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant and a lack of redundancy in online services.

AWS Outage: How Virginia Data Centers Brought Down the Internet Worldwide

The outage underscored a central trade-off of cloud computing: while it lets businesses deploy global services without maintaining vast infrastructure, it concentrates risk. A problem in a single region—like Northern Virginia—can cause widespread, simultaneous outages for unrelated companies worldwide.

An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change

The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.

Major online outages reported: What is AWS and how did the issue knock out so many websites?

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.
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