Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
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Amazon Web Services suffered a 15-hour outage Monday caused by DNS failures in its DynamoDB service, which triggered cascading problems across its Network Load Balancer and EC2 systems. The incident demonstrated the web's dangerous dependence on major cloud providers, as wide portions of the internet went down when AWS couldn't handle the backlog of requests.
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