Amazon, The outage
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"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."
Mashable reached out to Amazon to ask if the company was still delivering packages during the ongoing AWS outage on Monday, Oct. 20.
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What to know about how a massive Amazon cloud outage exposed the internet's vulnerable backbone
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system.
A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service crashed large swaths of the internet Monday, including government sites, social media, gaming, streaming, universities, financial platforms