AWS blames 'network congestion' for this month's second outage

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AWS blames 'network congestion' for the second outage this month
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AWS blames 'network congestion' for the second outage this month

It was the second outage of the month, affecting many sites and services

Amazon's cloud computing service AWS has said that network congestion between parts of the AWS Backbone and a subset of Internet Service Providers was to blame for the outage that took down many po...

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