The Amazon Web Services Outage

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Dec 13, 2021

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On Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, a glitch in Amazon Web Services had a massive impact on everything from smartphone apps to Walt Disney World. We learn about the origins of AWS and what Amazon says went wrong.
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Dec 13, 2021

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