Explainer: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?


A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network on Dec 7, 2021, severely disrupted services at a wide range of US companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the Internet and its concentration in the hands of a few firms. — AP

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were cancelled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news.

A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network on Dec 7 severely disrupted services at a wide range of US companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the Internet and its concentration in the hands of a few firms.

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