Amazon Web Services Outage Exposes Internet’s Heavy Reliance On Cloud Infrastructure

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A major AWS outage disrupted global internet services, hitting banks, airlines, and major apps. The issue stemmed from a faulty API update at its Virginia data center, affecting 113 services before being restored.

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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.

00:02A major outage in Amazon Web Services disrupted Internet services worldwide on Monday,

00:07taking down banking apps, airlines, and popular platforms, according to Al Jazeera.

00:11Hours-long disruption originated from AWS's Maine-Virginia data center

00:15after a faulty API update to DynamoDB, a core database service,

00:20triggered a domain name system failure.

00:22Amazon said 113 services were affected but restored by 1011 GMT,

00:26though some users experienced lingering delays.

00:28Antel has said the incident highlighted global dependence on cloud infrastructure

00:32but is unlikely to cause lasting damage to AWS, which controls 30% of the cloud market.

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