Amazon cloud outage triggers global chaos

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AWS attributed the outage to a faulty configuration change. Source: DPA / Uwe Lein/DPA

A massive internet outage has taken out thousands of websites, apps and services globally. The technical fault originated with U-S data centres operated by Amazon Web Services AWS, which controls 30 per cent of the world's cloud computing market that underpins web-based services.


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