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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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Last week, a major AWS outage took down gaming behemoths like Fortnite and Roblox and caused wide chaos by also impacting important services and ...

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to come into work and crack wise: "Bumped into a server rack with my big ass and ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services has explained what went wrong to cause the major ...

An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the ...

This article was updated at 6:15 p.m. PDT on October 20. Between 11:49 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:24 AM PDT on October 20, AWS experienced increased error rates for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services is starting to get back up and running after a ...

Websites and services across the United States and around the world struggled to recover Monday after a problem at Amazon Web Services (AWS) left leading games, publishers, streaming platforms and ...