Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo for Amazon Web Services and a broken ethernet cable are shown in this illustration. Several Canadian companies were directly or indirectly impacted by an AWS outage on Monday ...

A major cloud outage Monday disrupted services across the globe, offering a reminder of how dependent we are on just a few tech giants. “Amazon Web Services is one of the foundations of the modern internet,” said Shaddi Hasan, assistant professor of ...

A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly ...

A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world Monday, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. The disruption and the ensuing ...

As soon as online photo storage startup SmugMug Inc. heard about Amazon.com Inc.’s Simple Storage Service, an online data storage repository that debuted on March 14, 2006, “my eyes got all big,” co-founder and Chief Executive Don MacAskill said at the time.

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