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Here's what experts say the AWS outage reveals about the cloud

The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and underscoring the fragility of a system reliant on only a handful of tech giants.

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AWS Outage Today: How Long Will It Last? Cause of Outage Explained

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AWS outage explained: Causes, affected services, impact, and recovery efforts- all we know so far

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Amazon Says AWS Cloud Service Back to Normal After Outage Disrupts Businesses Worldwide

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including...

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Amazon outage 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted

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Amazon Says All Cloud Services Restored After 15-Hour Outage

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Massive Amazon Cloud Outage Has Been Resolved After Disrupting Internet Use Worldwide

This is not the first time issues with Amazon’s key services have caused widespread disruptions.

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Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services

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Amazon Web Services global outage 'resolved' after disruption, company says

What caused AWS outage?

It wasn’t a hack, but instead it had a Domain Name System or DNS error that occurred at AWS’s US-EAST-1 location in northern Virginia.

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AWS reveals more on just what went wrong in major outage

The cloud hosting company's incident was caused by a major outage at AWS’ US-East-1 region, during which a DNS issue prevented services from reaching the DynamoDB API, which is used for low latency, high throughput applications like gaming, IoT and ecommerce.

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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.

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Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners

Some Eight Sleep mattress users had a rude awakening after the Amazon Web Services outage, with reports of beds stuck upright and haywire temperatures.