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AWS outage was a 'wake-up call' for businesses

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While Amazon declared systems had returned to “normal operations” by Monday evening, experts warn the outage’s implications run much deeper than temporary inconvenience. (Scripps News)

Breakdown
  • A global AWS outage disrupted internet access and business operations for about 15 hours. 8s
  • Over 2,500 companies and major brands, as well as government sites, were affected. 24s
  • Amazon restored services and initial reports point to a network connectivity failure, not hacking. 54s
  • AWS supports about one-third of the global cloud infrastructure market. 1m 12s
  • Experts say the outage is a wake-up call for businesses to consider more resilient backup solutions. 1m 43s
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