Amazon Web Services had a power outage at one of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. Amazon said it could take at least a day to bring the data center back online. The fire was ...

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When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...

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Amazon has published a lengthy report about the outage that knocked numerous websites, services, apps and games offline on October 20. It all started with a bug in its automation software DynamoDB, ...

This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours. Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily ...

If your week began like mine, Monday morning was a parade of broken web pages and non-working apps. The root of the problem was that Amazon Web Services‘ premier region had barfed all over itself, and ...

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...