AWS was not down, but the Microsoft outage made it seem like it was — here’s what went down yesterday

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, AWS was quick to dispute these reports with us.
CRN

AWS’ 15-Hour Outage: 5 Big AI, DNS, EC2 And Data Center Keys To Know

From the cause and resolution of AWS’ massive outage to whether AI had a potential impact, here are five big things you need to know about AWS global outage that affected millions. AWS’ massive ...
The Gazette

Amazon’s AWS struggles to recover after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

(Reuters) -Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – ...
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Amazon Suffers Major AWS Outage. Here’s 1 Stock That Can Profit From It

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) faced a ...
CNN

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable. From banking services ...
CNET

That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...
GeekWire

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy

AWS experienced a widespread outage early Monday that disrupted major sites and services. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is showing “significant signs of recovery” after a ...
Wired

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...
Futurism

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras.

OpenAI Taps Amazon AWS To Scale AI Compute On NVIDIA Blackwell In Massive $38B Deal

As part of the massive $38 billion deal, OpenAI will have access to AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA ...
TMCnet

Backblaze Publishes First Performance Stats Report: Transparent Cloud Storage Benchmarking

"Transparency has been central to Backblaze since our first Drive Stats report in 2013," said Gleb Budman, CEO at Backblaze. "Performance Stats extends that legacy, giving the world an open, ...