AWS outage hits company's own services

Tom Allen
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Sites like The Washington Post and Roku, as well as Amazon’s own services, were affected

AWS - the backbone of many online services - experienced a major outage last night, with service only restored at 9:18am GMT on Thursday. Although the multi-hour outage only affected one of AWS'...

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