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