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39 Why the Internet Broke While You Were Sleeping: Amazon Web Services Outage Explained

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Katie Collins @ CNET 2 place · today 07:31 EDT

Why the Internet Broke While You Were Sleeping: Amazon Web Services Outage Explained

Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of sites and services that were affected when AWS went down, causing a major internet blackout.

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