AWS is building a new high-speed subsea internet cable to connect the US and Ireland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to build a new transatlantic subsea cable to connect the US with Ireland.

AWS to build Fastnet subsea internet cable that will link US and Ireland

Fastnet is the first cable that Amazon is building on its own. The company backed multiple subsea internet projects in the past, but it developed them as part of consortiums. One of those cables, the ...
CNN

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable. From banking services ...
Total Telecom

AWS unveils plans for transatlantic cable Fastnet

Fastnet is designed with route diversity in mind. Rather than following established corridors, the cable will land at two strategic points intended to provide alternative pathways if other subsea ...
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The massive AWS outage that broke half the internet is finally over - here's what happened

A major AWS outage disrupted global websites, apps, and services. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure in AWS's US-East-1 region. In the latest update, Amazon said the AWS outage was resolved. Amazon ...
Wired

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...