4 w. ago What to know about the Amazon cloud outage that 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. But despite its omnipresence, most users don’t know what _ or where — the cloud is. Here […]

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4 w. ago Outages like Amazon’s cloud services bound to repeat: experts

If you started the week frustrated by technical difficulties ensnaring several of your favourite services, prepare for more troubles ahead. Experts say our reliance on digital services and cloud computing mean incidents like the major outage that hit Amazon Web Services in the early hours of Monday are bound to become more common. “It’s not […]

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4 w. ago Blue Jays warn of ’ticket management issues’ from Amazon cloud outage ahead of Game 7

The Toronto Blue Jays are advising ticket holders to Tuesday night’s Game 7 against the Seattle Mariners to be aware of ongoing “ticket management issues.” The team says Ticketmaster is experiencing technical difficulties related to Monday’s major outage that hit Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing platform that companies use to operate websites, programs and […]

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4 w. ago Amazon cloud outage reaches Canadians, Wealthsimple among businesses affected

If you started the week frustrated by technical difficulties ensnaring several of your favourite services, prepare for more troubles ahead. Experts say our reliance on digital services and cloud computing mean incidents like the major outage that hit Amazon Web Services in the early hours of Monday are bound to become more common. “It’s not […]

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4 w. ago Amazon cloud services ‘recovering’ after major global outage

Online users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services.

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4 w. ago Amazon cloud outage disrupts Snapchat, many other online services

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday. Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker […]

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4 w. ago Amazon cloud outage disrupts Snapchat, Robinhood and many other online services

Amazon-Web-Outage HL:Amazon cloud outage disrupts Snapchat, Robinhood and many other online services THE CANADIAN PRESS Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday. Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. On DownDetector, […]

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