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Amazon's AWS Outage Disrupts Internet and Smart Devices Nationwide

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Source: BBC
Amazon's AWS Outage Disrupts Internet and Smart Devices Nationwide
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Amazon Web Services apologized after a major outage in its North Virginia data center caused widespread disruptions to over 1,000 websites and services, including Snapchat, Reddit, and Lloyds Bank, due to a faulty automation process that affected DNS management and highlighted the tech industry's reliance on AWS.

Topics:businesstechnology#amazon#aws-outage#cloud-computing#internet-disruption#system-failure#technology
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  1. Amazon apologises to customers impacted by huge AWS outage  BBC
  2. You thought Monday’s internet outage was bad? Just wait  CNN
  3. The Day Amazon Broke the Internet for Millions of Americans  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours  The New York Times
  5. Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners  The Washington Post

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