Vice President Bob Wambach of Dynatrace says global economy's dependence on cloud providers creates risk of systemic outages lasting hours or days.

AWS confirmed Tuesday afternoon that its cloud infrastructure had fully recovered after a massive global outage froze apps, services, and businesses for over 10 hours. The disruption, which began earlier that day,

The outage serves as warning sign for a potentially more disruptive situation and reflects "tech monoculture" in a global infrastructure.

Several online platforms, such as AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat, and others, experienced outages on Monday. According to Downdetector, the issues were attributed to Amazon's cloud unit AWS. Platforms like Amazon.

A global outage of Amazon Web Services sparks warning of heightened phishing risk: 6 million+ users affected and scammers poised to strike.

What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.

The downtime serves as a reminder to CIOs that recovery strategies separate from their primary cloud vendor are key to business continuity.

While its systems are back online, yesterday's massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services outage brought down thousands of high-profile apps, websites and online platforms with it.

A major global outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) has left millions of users offline and disrupted operations.

In the New Orleans area, ASAP Ankle Monitoring confirmed it's experiencing issues with its cloud-based case management system. However, the company's CEO, Matt Dennis, says the outage has not affected the tracking of offenders. He says each monitoring device is tracked using the manufacturer's independent servers, which are not cloud-based.