Why the Internet Broke While You Were Sleeping: Amazon Web Services Outage Explained

The internet kicked off the week the way that many of us often feel like doing: by refusing to go to work. An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable on Monday morning, with sites and services including Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo, the PlayStation Network and, predictably, Amazon, unavailable for a short period of time.The outage began shortly after midnight PT, and took Amazon around three and a half hours to fully resolve. Social networks and streaming services ...