US EditionWhat the Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals About the Weaknesses of the Internet
The outage affected multiple sectors worldwide, exposing risks tied to reliance on few cloud providers as similar incidents increase in frequency, experts say.
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We Need to Talk About Cloud Resilience
This week’s major outage of Amazon Web Services’ cloud operation once again highlights the vulnerability of the world’s commercial, government, and social interactions due to a reliance on a handful of providers. The outage—which took several hours to resolve—impacted applications across a wide spectrum: social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming, financial and health services, and transport, among others. The effects were felt international…
Signal’s messages. The search for pokemons. The sale of tickets for Van Gogh’s new and expected La Ereja tour. I included Eight Sleep’s smart beds, which were tilted and started roasting their customers alive. The services and applications of more than 2,000 companies around the world were affected on Monday by a fall in Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is Amazon’s cloud and the most important place in the Internet sewers. According to the Downd…
An Amazon data center destroyed parts of the Internet for three hours. The damage is enormous and raises the question of whether Europe needs its own technology.
The Amazon cloud service outage that hit the world earlier this week turned a magically convenient world into a nightmare for many people. Unfortunately, it seems that the price of convenience is still too small for more sustainable behavior, states Kristjan Port in R2's tech commentary.
🛜 How the internet took a long nap this week
💡We need your feedback about the Techloy Weekly newsletter. Please take 3 minutes to tell us what you think.This week, Amazon’s cloud arm, AWS, went offline, taking hundreds of apps and websites down with it. For about 15 long hours, users couldn’t access everything from Canva and Snapchat to Fortnite and Ring. More than 11 million people reported issues across the globe, a reminder of just how much of the internet depends on a handful of cloud…
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