Amazon server meltdown triggers cloud service outage chaos

‘Amazon Web Services (AWS), the United States’ largest cloud computing company, experienced a major outage today and when that happens, everyone feels the pain from ordinary Joe Soaps to multi-billion dollar corporations.
The outage began at 12:35pm ET and centered on AWS’ S3 cloud on the east coast of the United States, though the impact was felt much farther afield.
“AWS had not had a lot of outages and when they happen, they’re famous. People still talk about the one in September of 2015 that lasted five hours,” Dave Bartoletti, a cloud analyst with Forrester, told USA Today.’
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