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When Amazon’s cloud service sneezed yesterday morning, huge chunks of the internet caught a bad cold.
First noted by Amazon Web Services at 12:11 a.m. PDT on Monday, the cloud service provider detected an “operational issue” in northern Virginia, a hub for its global data centers, affecting “multiple services” in its US-EAST-1 region.
What followed was a morning of app-based chaos around the world, as users reported that popular websites and services including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox, United Airlines, and Paypal’s Venmo were suffering from the outage, according to Downdetector data. Most AWS services are now back to business as usual, as the “underlying DNS issue,” sometimes referred to as the internet’s phonebook, which directs recognizable website names to unique IP addresses, has been “fully mitigated.”
The long list of major websites that were affected by Monday’s outage reflects just how reliant our modern internet infrastructure is on a few giant tech companies.
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