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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud
Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.
User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.
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Amazon reports higher sales and earnings for 3Q, helped by its fast-growing web services business
Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.
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AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.
Cipher Mining signed a $5.5 billion, 15-year lease with AWS to provide AI infrastructure, bringing total hosting contracts to $8.5 billion.
On Wednesday Amazon announced the completion of its data-center initiative Project Rainier, which will primarily be used to service Anthropic's compute needs. The company expects Anthropic's Claude to be using over one million of Amazon's custom Trainium2 chips by year-end.
A "faulty automation" was at the core of the issues that caused knock-on effects for more than one thousand sites on Monday, an expert told the BBC.
Amazon Web Services (AMZN) plans to build a trans-Atlantic subsea fiber optic cable system to help address the rising demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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