An Amazon Outage Nearly Took Out The Whole Internet. Here’s Just How Big It Was.

The internet fell apart Monday due to outages at a single company: Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider that powers many of the most popular apps and services we use.

Modem vs. router: The differences between the pieces of hardware that connect you to the internet, explained

A modem and router work in tandem to deliver you an internet connection and then grant access to your various devices.

What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling ...
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What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.
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What’s a Raspberry Pi and How You Can Use It to Amp Up Your Home Internet Setup

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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.

Amazon says a DNS error caused the AWS outage. What does that mean?

The company says the Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted online activity for a large portion of the internet on Monday ...