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October 27, 2025

How to prepare for outages that impact our online lives, from banking to chatting apps

  • Consumers may not realize how many platforms they use rely on the same back-end technology.
    • By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
    AP Business Writer

    AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato
    For people trying to move money, communicate with loved ones or work using impacted services, web disruptions are especially stressful.

    A major Amazon Web Services outage disrupted scores of online platforms last week — leaving people around the world unable to access some banks, chatting apps, online food ordering and more.


     
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