AWS Outage Sparks Former FBI Agent Warning For Every Workplace In 2026

Amazon outage shows how one bad day can break the internet

When Amazon Web Services went down on Monday, much of the internet went with it.  The outage began in northern Virginia at AWS’s largest data center, and ultimately impacted over 1,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide. While most services returned to normal after the 15-hour-long outage, the system failure highlights how a single error at a major tech firm can ripple across global internet operations.  “Day-to-day, people …

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AWS Outage Sparks Former FBI Agent Warning For Every Workplace In 2026

Following the AWS outage, former FBI agent Eric O'Neill shares his take on the future of cybersecurity skills, certifications, and resilience in the workforce for 2026.

AWS outage leads to estimated losses of $75 million per hour

AWS outage disrupted major platforms, causing an estimated $75 million in hourly losses

The 9 weirdest things that happened during Amazon's huge AWS outage - WorldNL Magazine

(Image credit: Duolingo / Canvas / Premier League / Sky Sports) If you have a smartphone or are familiar with the internet, you may have noticed that things weren't quite right yesterday – a huge AWS outage took out the hundreds of services that rely on its cloud computing backbone, and suddenly the digital world felt like it was made of jelly.The impacts were serious and global, affecting over 1,000 businesses according to Downdetector. But wh…