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 ...

People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular online services on Monday after an Amazon Web Services outage caused widespread ...

More than 1,000 people were reporting connectivity issues with Amazon Web Services Tuesday morning after a day of outages plagued thousands of popular apps and websites across the internet. An AWS ...

UPDATE Monday, 5:07 p.m. ET: Amazon indicated its AWS services were well on the way to fully recovering. "We continue to observe recovery across all AWS services," the company wrote in an update to ...

Amazon’s e-commerce customers are experiencing unusual delivery delays following the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday — suggesting that the cloud glitch has impacted the company’s own operations ...

A detailed explanation of this week’s Amazon Web Services outage, released Thursday morning, confirms that it wasn’t a hardware glitch or an outside attack but a complex, cascading failure triggered ...

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...

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