A massive AWS outage took down parts of the internet today — from Alexa and Snapchat to Fortnite and banking apps. Here’s what really happened, and why one small glitch caused such big chaos.

An early Monday outage at Amazon Web Services took down dozens of online sites and services, including Amazon’s e-commerce site, Prime Video, and Alexa and Ring services, Google’s Gmail, Snapchat, and ...

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services ...

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online ...

Amazon has published a lengthy report about the outage that knocked numerous websites, services, apps and games offline on ...

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed ...

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 ...