AWS outage takes down a huge chunk of the internet



AWS outage takes down a huge chunk of the internet: Amazon’s internet infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has undergone a multi-hour outage on Wednesday which in turn has affected a large portion of the internet. The service was almost fully restored at around 4:18AM ET on Thursday morning, according to Amazon.

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