Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.

Amazon Web Services outage that hit nearly 150 apps caused by ‘common tech glitch’

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.
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AWS outage originated at Northern Virginia data center

Amazon Web Services was offline early Monday morning, the outage affecting multiple websites and apps on Monday.
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Amazon goes nuclear with new modular reactor plant

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations to protect its data services from outages.

AWS Outage: How Virginia Data Centers Brought Down the Internet Worldwide

The outage underscored a central trade-off of cloud computing: while it lets businesses deploy global services without maintaining vast infrastructure, it concentrates risk. A problem in a single region—like Northern Virginia—can cause widespread, simultaneous outages for unrelated companies worldwide.

Amazon cloud reputation takes hit after outage lasting 15 hours

Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc.
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Amazon Suffers Major AWS Outage. Here’s 1 Stock That Can Profit From It

Web Services (AWS) faced a significant outage yesterday centered in its US-EAST-1 region, triggered by issues with DynamoDB database services and DNS resolution failures. This disruption rippled globally,
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Amazon: Data center campus construction in Salem Twp. on ‘rapid pace’

Amazon announced in June it was investing $20 billion in data centers in Pennsylvania, including the Salem Twp. campus, as part of the largest capital investment in state history.

Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots

Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does today.
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