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March 1, 2017

Amazon cloud outage: What's the fallback?

By MAE ANDERSON
AP Technology Reporter

NEW YORK — Usually people don't notice the “cloud” — unless, that is, it turns into a massive storm. Which was the case Tuesday when Amazon's huge cloud-computing service suffered a major outage.

Amazon Web Services, by far the world's largest provider of internet-based computing services, suffered an unspecified breakdown in its eastern U.S. region starting about midday Tuesday. The result: unprecedented and widespread performance problems for thousands of websites and apps.


 
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