Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage affecting nearly 70 of its services, leading to widespread disruptions across major websites and platforms like Amazon, Disney+, Lyft, and more, with recovery efforts underway.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a warning for a dangerous solar storm today, May 16, which is expected to cause a G1-class geomagnetic storm. The solar storm can disrupt wireless communications and GPS services, causing trouble for airlines, mariners, ham radio controllers, and drone operators. The coronal mass ejection (CME) is likely to strike the Earth in a few hours' time as per the NOAA models. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) carries a full suite of instruments to observe the Sun and has been doing so since 2010.