What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it ...

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.
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AWS Amplify and Amazon S3 Integration Simplifies Static Website Hosting

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Is Amazon Web Services down? Users report problems with service

Users are reporting problems with Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading many to ask if the provider is currently down. At the ...

Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, ...

Amazon Web Services says it's 'operating normally' amid outage reports

Microsoft Azure's outages started to spike after 10:44 a.m. Wednesday while Amazon Web Services outages increased soon after, ...

The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem

What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic ...